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Andre van Eyssen <nntempt@africa.purplecow.org> writes:

>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. 

Pity they didn't leave the Cobalt line alone instead of killing that off, so
hopefully that won't be repeated.

>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. 

I think Tadpole merged with RDI - I remember seeing Tadpole/RDI systems for
a while.

Craig.
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