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From: brian@king.csd.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: NEC UltraLite Deal from DAK?
Message-ID: <4256@motcsd.csd.mot.com>
Date: 16 Jun 91 06:30:28 GMT
References: <Jun.15.17.42.32.1991.20746@galaxy.rutgers.edu> <1991Jun16.025254.29158@ecf.toronto.edu>
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xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO  Yan) writes:

>In article <Jun.15.17.42.32.1991.20746@galaxy.rutgers.edu> bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ron Bannon) writes:
>>DAK is advertising the following for $699. Is it a good deal?
>>
>>NEC UltraLite 4.4 lb. Notebook Computer
>>	1-MB Silicon Hard Disk (That's right, one megabyte.)
>>	V30 CPU
>>	640K RAM, (456K ROM)

>	What's V30 CPU?  and What's this 456K ROM  for?

The V30 is an NEC workalike for the 8086.  The 456K ROM is used for MSDOS,
a DOS manager, and a setup utility.