[plug] Which brand of laptop?

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Matt Kemner wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, quoth Bret Busby:
>
>> Since the Sony Vaio has been mentioned, I wonder whether anyone
>> remembers a Sony Vaio laptop that was available in the early 1990's,
>> that had as the CPU, a Motorola 68020 (or a similar Motorola CPU),
>> similar to the CPU in the DEC PDP 11/44, and, came with the intalled OS
>> being SCO UNIX? I think, from emory, that the price was somewhere around
>> $5,000.
>
> There's a company called "Tadpole Technologies" that did (and still does)
> make Sun UltraSparc based laptops, running Solaris:
>
> http://www.tadpole.com/products/notebooks.asp
>
>

I like the Bullfrog - a laptop weighing 20lb!

It sounds like it's a real gutsy little thing, with 8GB RAM, or 16GB 
with the dual processor.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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