Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!kelly
From: kelly@uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Unix laptops
Keywords: Dream machine. Does it exist? Well sort of...
Message-ID: <54.G02v77fIa01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 09:13:07 GMT
References: <PEDZ.90Jan13130300@pedz.austin.ibm.com> <2944@d75.UUCP>
Reply-To: kelly@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 15

In article <2944@d75.UUCP> @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron writes:
>In article <PEDZ.90Jan13130300@pedz.austin.ibm.com>, pedz@pedz.austin
>(Perry Smith) writes:
>|>If we totally disrequard price, is there a laptop which runs Unix in a
>|>true multi-process environment?  
>Interactive has an awefully nice X-Window implementation with their
>Unix that supports VGA very nicely.
Unfortunately when trying to install ISC 2.02 on such a beast the
install scripts at least insist upon treating the VGA as a CGA in the top
half with attendent garbage characters in the Bottom half...with
an occasional totally garbaged screen thrown in for good measure...
At first that particular combination looks good but there are still
some gotchas... I know I have precisely that combination... fortunately
I have other CPU's to run ISC so am now wating to see if
2.2 treat the prospeed any better than 2.02 did...