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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: HYPERION - Portable PC Question!
Message-ID: <809@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 14:32:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.809
Posted: Mon Sep 29 14:32:42 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Oct-86 01:22:27 EDT
References: <4166@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4166@brl-smoke.ARPA> LINDSAY@TL-20B.arpa writes:
>I agree with Andy Glew.  If a game doesn't run on your Hyperion, then it's
>probably better to work on your serenity than to work on your hardware.
>
>I am the implementor of IN:SCRIBE, the screen editor that was distributed with
>the Hyperion. ( I wonder if Commodore picked it up when they bought the
>designs from Comterm, nee Bytec, nee Dynalogic.) 
>
>                                                        Then they started to 
>try outside software on their prototypes, and it became clear that practically 
>everything they had done to make the machine cheaper or faster was "wrong" and 
>had to be undone.
>
>Don Lindsay

The Commodore derivitives of the Hyperion design (PC10, PC20) cleaned up almost
all of the PC compatibilty problems about the time they decided to make a PC/XT
rather than a portable.  They implemented the standard expansion architecture,
with only the Floppy and Serial/Parallel ports integrated on the main board.
The systems are also shipped with industry standard mono/color or extended
graphics cards.

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