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From: watson@spot.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Toshiba Laptop Sparc / Sony laptop
Message-ID: <138386@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 90 15:48:42 GMT
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In article <943@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:
>Hey Jordan!  I've played around with the Toshiba SPARC laptop, and
>it does indeed run straight SunOS.  In fact, when I talked to the 
>engineers from Toshiba about some ideas for custom device drivers
>(like a keyboard equivalent for mouse motion for those times you
>don't want to hook the mouse up) they gave me a really weird look
>and said that they had done *nothing* to SunOS to make it work.
>Generally, though, the Toshiba SPARC laptop is an incredible machine,
>a real state-of-the-art in laptop technology (though at 17+ pounds
>you need a pretty tough lap!)  The display, for example, had the
>lowest persistance LCD I've ever seen...

I too was amazed at this machine...
Not having time to hook it up to the net (no free hostid's :-()
I made a tape of Openwindows V2 on my SPARCstation 150Mb tape unit,
plugged the same tape unit using the same cable into the Toshiba and
tar'ed the tape down. Everything worked, first time.

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