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From: antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Question about Atari Portfolio....
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Date: 20 Mar 90 04:57:20 GMT
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I played with an Atari Portfolio today, and loved it.  I have just one question
before I shell out $500 for the little box:

The pmaphlet the dealer had claims that the commands are like MS-DOS, but seems
to be trying to not say"this is an MS-DOS compatible machine".  What I want to
know is:

Has nayone tried writing programs on a regular PC and then downloading them to
the Portfolio?  Does this work?  Is the thing a tride and true PC-compatible?

I'd only ever want to do very portable C things which I could compile on my PC
and download to it.

If this is easily doable, I'll buy the thing in a second....

Thanks,

				antony
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