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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: 12 Oct 90 03:29:55 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.055915.862@lighthouse.com> rock@lighthouse.com writes:
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>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?

The portable I was referring to is Toshibas SparcLaptop, not the
T5200.
Nevertheless a PC-compatible Portable running NeXTStep would be great
for other reasons. The problem seems to be with IBM. As far as I have
been told they want to offer only NeXTStep on machines with a special
high speed display adapter. This might be ok for everyday usage, but
when I am travelling, then I care less about speed than about that I
can use the same software, test out some ideas etc. Unless IBM brings
a RS/6000 portable or a P70/megapixel I'm afraid it doesn't look like
this is going to work out anytime soon. But maybe NeXT will surprise
us in the Future. Give them a chance :-)

Ronald
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