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From: george@genat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Laptop Xenix/UNIX
Message-ID: <243@genat.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 09:45:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 26 09:45:48 1987
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Reply-To: george@genat.UUCP (George Gorsline)
Organization: Genamation Inc. (Toronto Ontario, Canada)
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Thanks to all the people who responded to my query regarding laptop
Xenix/UNIX.  Except for the few who were unaware of the current state of the
art in the laptop world (that is, there ARE hard disks and reasonable memory
sizes on the little beasties), all comments were helpful.

Net result is that nobody knows for sure, including Toshiba and SCO.  So we
are in the process of finding out using a Toshiba 5100 (40mb disk at 29ms with
a 386 chip and 1mb basic memory).  There are two areas we suspect will be the
problems:

	EGA and monitor simulation (yup, really two separate areas, but ...)

	Disk driver issues

There will be a further posting to the net once we have been able to get some
hard data.  If these efforts with the 386 product are fruitful, we may then
look at the T3200 (286 at 12 mHz with a full AT slot for an Intellicom 8-port
board) as our next target.  This is done not for knowledge's sake, but to
provide a practical way of giving our VARs a selling tool to demonstrate their
solutions live at their prospects' offices.  If you have a similar need, send
a mail message...

Regards,
-- 
	George Gorsline, Jr.  VE3FIU / K8HI
	One of the VE3YDX gang... Y DX?  Because it's there(~Y)!
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