[PATCH] Convert checks for PC98 support from platform #ifdefs to configure flag

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Fri Dec 18 16:44:37 PST 2009


On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:16:27 -0800, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:

> That would require me to know, but I'm in the disinformed bunch.   I
> vaguely remember it being a standard used in Japanese PC's that never
> caught on in the rest of the world - which of the choices in Wikipedia
> makes it sound more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_PC-9801 than
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide#PC_98 - hopefully
> someone else knows.

Yup, it's the mystic Japanese version that the X server has code for. I
don't actually know what the differences were, but I'm also fairly sure
that those machines are mostly dead now.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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