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From: frankk@cwi.nl (Frank Kuiper)
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Subject: Info requested on: RDI/TriGem's Britelite portable.
Keywords: Compatibles
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Date: 24 Mar 91 12:32:00 GMT
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In the Februari issue of "SunExpert" is an article "Let the Buyer beware".

On page 64 is a picture of the Britelite laptop from RDI/TriGem Corp.
On page 70 there is some more information.

This machine supposedly is an SunOS laptop, with MSDOS and Mac OS
emulations available.  The price of US$ 10,800 is not nothing for an 8-48
Mb main memory, 240Mb on board disk, 12.5 MIPS machine.

We are interested in this machine, specially because it offers both MSDOS
and Mac OS emulations.  Is there anyone who can tell me more about it?
Reliabillity, features/performance of the emulations?

I know the machine might not actually be for sale at this moment (the
article mentions the second quarter of 91), so I'm willing to take any
info people can offer me:  rumours, "supposedly"'s, everyhting.

I'll summarize what I receive.

[[Ed's Note: We are also interested in this - even though it's weak as far
as the processor speeds go, the possibility of having all three platforms
run in one box would make it a very nice machine. I have all the
information they would provide me and it looks somewhat interesting.
performance wise. MacOS is done through software emulation which probably
means it wouldn't be real racy in that mode. There isn't a whole lot of
information on the MSDOS emulation mode [:(]. Also, evidentally it is
RDI's corporate policy not to ship evaluation models, and it's our
corporate policy not to buy without evaluating which is a problem :( :(.
I'd also welcome any information from someone who has actually seen one of
these running. -bdg]]

Frank Kuiper                                       .                  ___   
Internet: frankk@cwi.nl                                          _][__| |