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From: rock@lighthouse.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Portable NeXT?
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.055915.862@lighthouse.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 05:59:15 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu's message of 7 Oct 90 04:04:13 GMT


In article <52379@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
writes:

>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...

Since IBM has announced NeXTstep for PS/2s running AIX 3.0, I imagine
it might be possible to use a PS/2-compatible portable as a NeXTstep
machine. (Of course, storage requirements might make the machine more
of a luggable.)

Anyone have a clue about the feasibility of such a portable?

Roger Rosner
Lighthouse Design
rock@lighthouse.com