Re: Cheap Laptop Terminals

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From: Mark Foster
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1988 19:26

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In article <dhw68k.6208> david@dhw68k.cts.com (David H. Wolfskill) writes:
>
>... part of the reason for this is my deep-seated prejudice
>against Intel chips and IBM PC-type things

Don't be too surprised when you open up any given terminal (laptop
or otherwise) and find (gasp :-) an 8080, Z-80, or somesuch
CPU running the show -- it just is a dedicated machine running
a single ROM/PROM-based application.

(Yeah, I know, this isn't *really* what you meant... )

----
Mark Foster
CSE Systems Support
Oregon Graduate Center
    fosterm@cse.ogc.edu

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From: fosterm@ogcvax.UUCP (Mark Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Cheap Laptop Terminals
Message-ID: <1605@ogcvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 19:26:27 GMT
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