Re: what pizza box sparcs are Solaris 9 or 10 capable?

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From: Andre van Eyssen
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:26

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On 2007-07-27, Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:

>>I'm looking for a sparc that I can readily take on an airplane.
>>It doesn't need to be powerful, but it needs to be able to run
>>Solaris 9 or 10.
>
> There are some companies that make Sparc-based notebook and laptop systems.
> Tadpole used to make them (but I think they got swallowed by a company
> making x86 systems), and there is BlueSky in Europe who make portable Sparc
> servers as well as notebooks/laptops.

Tadpole are still going, and Sun are re-branding some of their hardware. 
Naturetech are also a vendor of SPARC based laptops. There was a company 
called RDI also in the space, but they vanished some years ago. 

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