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From: alan@km4ba.uucp (Alan Barrow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Don't Panic - a dream
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.063115.1395@km4ba.uucp>
Date: 19 Jun 91 06:31:15 GMT
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Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz) writes:
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>For those of us who think handheld number-crunchers are tops, I'd like to
>see a vertical-format machine which has the Intel CPU compatiblility so a 
>plug-in DOS card would work, but would still have one-key-per-function
>math capabilities built in (at least as a kernel).

Strange, I would really like a 48SX in a qwerty format, or even a 28S
format. Add a decent PIM in rom, and vi/emacs/ur_editor_here.

I have and use DOS & unix machines, but still like the 28/48
environment for this size machine. I guess I hate dos assembly.


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