[plug] Which brand of laptop?

[Craig Foster]

Matt, you scare me with some of the arcane tidbits of info you contribute to this list :P
 
Craig F.

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From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au on behalf of Matt Kemner
Sent: Fri 8/08/2008 1:50 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Which brand of laptop?



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

They once upon a time made DEC Alpha based laptops as well, running
OpenVMS or Digital Unix (OSF/1)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_Dec_4/ai_17809952

 - Matt

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