Re: Serial port & Modems (External)

[chetal@gedny.ml.com (Pradeep Chetal)]

<John Kim> writes:
 > In message Fri, 1 Jul 1994 08:13:45 -0700 (PDT),
 >   Randal Whittle <whittle@chaph.usc.edu>  writes:
 > 
 > >>  about a 9600   level.  Of course, I have one of those antique TP700's
 > >> with  a 16550AFN   serial port  :)						 ^^^^^
 > 
 > > 	Does anybody have a clue why IBM would put 16550 UARTs in their
 > > early 700 series ThinkPads but not in the 750's?!!!!  This is ANGERING! :(
 > 
 > The 700 and 720 were MicroChannel Architecture machines.  All MCA machines
 > have 16550 UARTs (as well as other features that make multitasking go more
 > smoothly).  The 750 was in a way a concession to the market's continuing
 > use of ISA - it is an ISA machine.  I guess too many people complained they
 > couldn't run Linux on the Thinkpad 7xx.  :)
 > 

I have a THinkPad 750Cs and would like to run Linux on it. Is it possible
without too much work?

THanks,

/Pradeep