Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!convex.csd.uwm.edu!dave From: dave@convex.csd.uwm.edu (David A Rasmussen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: RISC-Notebook Message-ID: <8069@uwm.edu> Date: 5 Dec 90 00:18:25 GMT References: <1402@forty2.physik.unizh.ch> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: dave@convex.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 13 Originator: dave@convex.csd.uwm.edu From article <1402@forty2.physik.unizh.ch>, by claudio@forty2.physik.unizh.ch (Claudio Nieder): Another company hoping to challenge Go and GRiD is Active Book. a Cambridge, England, firm that is developing a 4-pound notebook computer. The Active Book features a 10-million-instructions-per-second RISC processor developed by Acorn Computers Ltd. What does Acorn's current line of standard machines look like and how much do they go for? Like on the order of unix workstations *with* keyboards? -- Dave Rasmussen - Systems Programmer/Manager, UW-Milwaukee Computing Svcs Div. Internet:dave@uwm.edu, Uucp:uwm!dave, Bitnet:dave%uwm.edu@INTERBIT AT&T:414-229-5133 USmail:Box 413 EMS380,Milwaukee,WI 53201