Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!littlei!ogcvax!fosterm From: fosterm@ogcvax.UUCP (Mark Foster) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: Cheap Laptop Terminals Message-ID: <1605@ogcvax.UUCP> Date: 29 Mar 88 19:26:27 GMT References: <237@madnix.UUCP> Reply-To: fosterm@ogcvax.UUCP (Mark Foster) Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 17 In article david@dhw68k.cts.com (David H. Wolfskill) writes: > >... part of the reason for this is my deep-seated prejudice >against Intel chips and IBM PC-type things Don't be too surprised when you open up any given terminal (laptop or otherwise) and find (gasp :-) an 8080, Z-80, or somesuch CPU running the show -- it just is a dedicated machine running a single ROM/PROM-based application. (Yeah, I know, this isn't *really* what you meant... ) ---- Mark Foster CSE Systems Support Oregon Graduate Center fosterm@cse.ogc.edu