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From: amir@smsc.sony.com (Amir )
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Portable Unix boxes [was "Killer Micros"]
Message-ID: <1990Mar6.184634.14749@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 6 Mar 90 18:46:34 GMT
References: <9748@portia.Stanford.EDU> <00933399.8ACEFBE0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: amir@Sony.COM (Amir )
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <00933399.8ACEFBE0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>The Japanese and Taiwanese and the Koreans (South, of course) all have
>plans to go do SPARC implementations; look for Toshiba to give us portable
>SPARC, Taiwan and Korea to give us $5K SPARC boxes which will compete with
>Sun and DECs low-end machines. 

This brings up another topic.  Toshiba, as the poster mentioned, has long been
rumored to be making a "portable" SPARC systesm.  Can anyone speculate
as to how successful a *portable* Unix box would be specially  when
the competition is 286/386 machines that run both DOS and Unix
applications?  Off course, SPARC machine would run faster but what
kind of people would need the extra speed?

Note that I am not saying that this is not a good idea.  It is just that
what most people do with a portable machine can be done with current
intel based portables...

-- 
Amir H. Majidimehr
Operating Systems Group
Sony Microsystems
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