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New Tadpole SPARCbook RSN
Jon Masters wrote to us in regards to the SPARCBook 6500 from Tadpole. Solaris 9, 4 gigs of RAM and all that - but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?
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Now for something with real bizarre appeal you need to go for...S/390 on a laptop. Yes folks thats right, the great big clunking mainframe in the backroom running on your own Thinkpad.
Solaris is for wimps, I wouldn't go anywhere without my portable mainframe system.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?
Because you need that kind of firepower to adequately run StarOffice(TM).
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You can see it clearly in the datasheet here:s parcboo k/datasheet.pdf
;)
http://hw.tadpole.com/pdf/products/mobile/
at zoom level of 800% or so.
What is that key between tab and shift? This has to be a mistake. Do they really expect any self-respecting Unix user will by this???
Prejudice aside, I think I want this toy even more than Zaurus. I wonder if FreeBSD 5.0 will work on it
And yes, there are people who really do need it.
I passed the Turing test.
a Beowolf cluster
*plonk*
Carrier Lost
Define "64-bit" for a personal computer.
Are you simple? It's one thing to say "What do I need this for." It's another thing to try and claim that your 32 bit computer is 64 bit.
*lol*
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I think the moderator read "users who need a stable, secure Unix with good development tools" + " Linux notebooks will be available for the rest" = flamebait. A totally acceptable interpertation of the post.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
So you can make the program portable even when it isn't portable? ;-)
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Now that you mention it I think my trs-80 laptop is 64-bit because it can add two 64-bit numbers.
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main(){
printf("My computer is %d bits\n", sizeof( int) * 8);
}
So the little yellow circle says "Available in Winter 2002." Hasn't that already passed in the Southern Hemisphere? Let's have those reviews, you upside-down people!
bad enough when people take their work home with them, even worse when they take the server home with them!
Exactly, if an article can get up with a reason of "Neat, somebody put a computer in a pumpkin" then an article with the justification of "Neat, somebody put a Sparc-based computer in a notebook".
It's the same thing, putting something where convential wisdom would say that it shouldn't be.
Although our Veep Dick Cheney appears to use a TiBook.....
I would love to see that "switch" ad.