<OT> Compaq file system??

[Brett I. Holcomb]

They still do.  They still have proprietary hardware (SCSI drives, etc.) 
and the brain dead concept of putting a bunch of the bios and stuff on disk 
so you can't get to it if the disk fails and it eats up a bunch of your 
disk space.


Kurt Wall wrote:

> Feigning erudition, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> % Sorry about the off-topic question, but my wife will be grateful for
> % possible help.
> 
> I recall that early Compaqs had all manner of proprietary goober about
> their systems, such as BIOS data stored in special sectors on the
> hard disk, components *only* available from Compaq, and so forth.
> 
> Kurt

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