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From: hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Epsilon on Portfolio, Poqet etc.
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.093641.390@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 11 Apr 91 09:36:41 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.000417.12608@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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In <1991Apr11.000417.12608@athena.mit.edu> mjwargo@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Wargo) writes:
>very appealing indeed.  Has anyone been able to get it to work
>on any of the really small machines?  I`ve heard that the portfolio

What about a 4,77 MHz 8088 with only 256 Kb memory and 1 360 Kb disk?
It works fine as long as you don't try to load big files; there isn't much
swappingroom on such a disk.

>is 'sorta' able to run DOS software.  Since Epsilon writes directly
>to screen hardware (as I remember, I'm using a really old version),
You can instruct it to use BIOScalls.

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