Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!draken!ianf
From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix in ROM
Summary: There's MS-DOS in ROM so why not...
Message-ID: <2339@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 19 Nov 89 16:41:07 GMT
Reply-To: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Organization: Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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  What with recent proliferation of "notebook" and smaller-than-laptop
  computers has anybody given a though to implementing Minix, or most
  of it, in a drive-less environment?  I'm thinking mainly of products
  like NEC UltraLight, the Atari Portfolio and the Poquet, each with
  MS-DOS embedded in ROM.  In addition both NEC and Poquet claim ability
  to run suitably configured software directly from ROM-cards, without
  having to read the code into the RAM.

  So, a Poquet running Minix and a mail-shell and we're set for life...
  or at least until the telepax technology matures.

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