Very Computer

by **Puck** » Wed, 09 Sep 1998 04:00:00

I have recenly been givin a Thinkpad Power Series 820 PPC notebook.

Will Linux work on this machine. I have found that support is coming but
cant find out if it has.

Please let me know..thanks

by **Daniel P. Hembre** » Tue, 15 Sep 1998 04:00:00

> Can anyone help. I have been given an IBM Think Pad PowerPC "Power Series
> 820". Its running on some os AIX 4.3 and I don't know anything about it. Is
> it possible to install either MS windows 95 or NT on this machine? Please
> help...

AIX is IBM's version of Unix. It's a very complete and powerful operating
system. Any basic Unix manual will work fine with it.

by **Richard Payn** » Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:00:00

The 820 is based on the PowerPC chip, so Win95,98 is out of the question,
you could run NT 4.0...BUT MicroSloth has stopped supporting that chip for
NT so
there will be no new updates and I doubt if there is much software out there
for it
anyway. Your best bet it to either learn AIX (a pretty good OS in my
opinion), or
try Linux. Though I'm not sure they can run Linux.....Anybody else know??

--
Rich Payne
(Speaking for myself, not my employer)
payner at timken dot com

>> Can anyone help. I have been given an IBM Think Pad PowerPC "Power
Series
>> 820". Its running on some os AIX 4.3 and I don't know anything about it.
Is
>> it possible to install either MS windows 95 or NT on this machine? Please
>> help...

> AIX is IBM's version of Unix. It's a very complete and powerful
operating
>system. Any basic Unix manual will work fine with it.