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Article #22807Portable Unix boxes [was "Killer Micros"]
From: Amir
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 18:46
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 18:46
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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
amir@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!amir
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