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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Portable NeXT?
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Date: 7 Oct 90 04:04:13 GMT
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In article <90271.01052434X3TAN@CMUVM.BITNET> 34X3TAN@CMUVM.BITNET writes:
>Right now the only problem with a portable NeXT is that active matrix color
>liquid crystal displays are not large enough to equal mega-pixel in dimentions.

I guess in a portable color is not top priority. As Toshiba proved
with their portable Sparc-based Laptop, it is possibel to put a
workstation class computer in a lap-top, even a LCD display with
mega-pixel resolution. In fact NeXT could use Toshibas facilities to
get a bare-bone portable i.e. case and display. Then they just would
need to put in an appropriate CPU-board and there we have our portable
NeXT. So maybe we will see such a thing soon. Would be really cool...

Ronald

P.S.: This is NOT a rumor, this is just a discussion of the
possibilites and a wish.
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