Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!ericbr From: ericbr@microsoft.UUCP (Eric BROWN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Unix laptops Message-ID: <10283@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 16 Jan 90 16:44:57 GMT References: Reply-To: ericbr@microsoft.UUCP (Eric BROWN) Distribution: comp Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 20 In article pedz@pedz.austin.ibm.com (Perry Smith) writes: >I've got the wait and see approach to buying a computer because of the >fact that with each year the prices drop and the power goes up plus >the fact that I have no real persoanl use for one. I am curious about >the current state of the machines though. > Well, while it's not state of the art, HP sold a portable Unix box a couple of years back. (The HP Integral comes to mind, although I'm not sure of the name.) It had a 68K, 2 meg of ram, gas-plasma display, and Unix in ROM, along with a ROM file system. I don't recall whether or not it had a hard disk; I do know that it had 3 1/2" floppies, though. You might run into one of these in the used computer outlets. Eric -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Brown ...!{sun, uunet, uw-beaver}!microsof!ericbr These are my opinions. If they were Microsoft's, you would pay $500 for them. ----------------------- Long Live the New Flesh! ----------------------------