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From: toddb@probe.EBay.Sun.COM (Todd Bernhard)
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Subject: Re: Unix Laptops
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Date: 30 Apr 91 21:29:15 GMT
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In article <1991Apr29.144702.26756@colorado.edu> tomf@boulder.Colorado.EDU writes:
>Anybody have any info on laptops running unix?  By this I mean
>real Unix boxes like the sony, not a pc running Unix.


The following is from UNIX Today, Monday April 29,
1991, page 1......I WANT ONE!

---todd


U.K. FIRM TO LAUNCH FIRST NOTEBOOK SPARC MACHINE

Cambridge, England - This fall, a British manufacturer
plans to start shipping what may be the world's first
notebook SPARC workstation.  The manufacturer, Tadpole
Technology, says the 5.5-pound battery-powered machine
is rated at 18 MIPS, will run System V Release 4.0 or
SunOS, and should sell for less than $6,000.

...Initially, it will ship with a 120-MByte disk, but
[CEO Bob] Gilkes said that he expects disk capacity to
increase substantially next year.

Instead of a workstation's high-resolution monitor, the
S1's screen will be a 640-by-480-pixel VGA paper-white 
LCD display.  To support non-X Sun binary applications,
Gilkes said the machine will have switchable screen modes.
It will either show a full-resolution 640-by-480 section
of a 1,280-by-960 standard display, or the entire 1,280-
by-960 screen could be shrunk down and shown in low 
resolution on the S1.

The machine will also have 8 Mbytes or 32 Mbytes memory,
64k-byte cache, 1.44-Mbyte floppy drive, built-in Ethernet
interface and serial port and a 2,400/9,600-baud fax modem.
Instead of a mouse, the S1 will sport an integrated tracking
device that Gilkes said he cannot yet describe because its
developer has not announced details of the product.

...The S1's batteries should allow 2.5 hours continuous use,
or 3.5 to 4 hours in typical use, and should be rechargeable
in two hours.

Measuring 11.75 by 8.5 inches and just 1.9 inches thick, the
S1 will have a magnesium case for durability and to cut down
radiation emissions, Gilkes said.

...For the S1, the company is taking a 25-MHz SPARC processor
and other parts from LSI Logic and is squeezing them onto an
AT bus board.

The Texas office of Tadpole can be reached at 512-338-4221.



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Todd Bernhard, Sun Micro, US Field Mktg - Milpitas, CA
408-276-1542     toddb@Sun.COM      ....!sun!toddb

(Having the Right to be Wrong does NOT imply the Obligation.)