Devel Digest, Vol 109, Issue 19

[Tony Anderson]

I also believe based on some observations in Rwanda that the firmware 
was modified.

Tony

On 04/27/2015 06:00 PM, devel-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:14:50 -0400
> From: Ed McNierney<edmcnierney at gmail.com>
> To: Jhon Diaz<linuxskid at gmail.com>
> Cc:devel at lists.laptop.org, John Watlington<wad at alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: Windows
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> Yes, and due to Microsoft’s requirements it could only boot from a very specific make and model (and perhaps even production batch) of SD card.  AFAIK, the XO is still the only computer that could (legitimately) boot Windows XP from removable media.  Please don’t spend any time on this - it’s just not available.  You can search the list archive for previous fruitless efforts:-)
>
> 	- Ed
>
>> >On Apr 27, 2015, at 8:49 AM, John Watlington<wad at alum.mit.edu>  wrote:
>> >
>> >
>>> >>On Apr 26, 2015, at 10:09 PM, Jhon Diaz<linuxskid at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>Is there liks a old version or copy a zip or something or are all the copies are deleted
>> >
>> >One of the reasons we didn’t like Windows is that we can’t distribute it.
>> >Even the version for the XO-1 had to be purchased from Microsoft (including a label to
>> >affix to the computer).
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >wad