🚀 go-pugleaf

In my never-ending quest for total bankruptcy through leading edge computer  
purchases (:-) I've come upon NS486 and the portable world.

Okay, so performance on the display won't be awesome (if the WINMARK numbers of  
PC Rag-azine are to be believed), and the screen in kinda small. Don't even  
talk about those silly little clip-on mice/built in trackballs - I get hand  
cramps even thinking about it.

Disk space.

Try to buy a portable with more than about 120M. (486's are pretty afordable,  
surprisingly enough.)

How do those poor benighted DOS weenies live with this situation when they want  
a development machine to take on the road?

Stacker doubles their disk size.

Attention NeXT: put optional compression in the operating system somewhere.  
That way I could squeeze a development machine on a 120M (240 w/ compression)  
hard-disk.  Also consider allowing a "portable" installation of the bare bones  
development box. (No shakespeare,  no uucp, no netinfo....)

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James "Cliff" Elam   | jcelam%witsend@glv.com - NeXT mail!
(919) 460-3240 (v,w) | NeXTStep/Intel + IB + DBKit @ $200 !   
(919) 460-3295 (fax) | All I want to do is go home now, please.