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From: stanh@meyerhof.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Hanks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Toshiba Laptop Sparc / Sony laptop
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Date: 3 Jul 90 16:33:57 GMT
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The Toshiba laptop is built under the SunOS licensing agreement between
Toshiba and Sun, and there is no other OS I know for for SPARC, so its
a pretty safe bet that they support SunOS. It is *NOT* available in the
U.S., and if you import if from the Pacific rim, you void the warranty.

I *still* want one.

BTW, it's not the first Sun laptop -- there is a MILSPEC box from 
SAIC that has a 19" gas-plasma montior, a Sun-3E or -4E processor,
a couple of hundred megabytes of disk, fits into a 4" Haliburton B-Zero
briefcase, runs on batteries (albeit satellite batteries!) -- and only
costs about $50,000.

Stanley P. Hanks      Director, Information Technology Planning and Development
Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston TX 77030, Mail Stop: IR-3
e-mail: stanh@bcm.tmc.edu       voice: (713) 798-4649       fax: (713) 798-3729