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New Tadpole SPARCbook RSN

Posted by Hemos on from the sparc-at-the-world dept.

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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  1. That is nothing by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Funny


    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.

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  2. a good reason. by programic · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  3. horror, horror, look at the keyboard! by meshko · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can see it clearly in the datasheet here:
    http://hw.tadpole.com/pdf/products/mobile/s parcboo k/datasheet.pdf
    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.

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    1. Re:horror, horror, look at the keyboard! by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 5, Funny

      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???
      Umm, it's a caps-lock? Just as every Sun keyboard has had since the introduction of the Sparc?
      Don't get me wrong, I liked the Sun3 keyboard just fine too (with a CONTROL there, as God intended!) but you're fighting a battle that was lost 12 years ago, man. Move on!
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    2. Re:horror, horror, look at the keyboard! by bmajik · · Score: 4, Funny

      YOu are wrong.

      There has been a UNIX layout and a PC layout keyboard in type4, type5, type5c, and presumably type6.

      All my sparc keyboards are UNIX layout - the way god intended.

      and my w2k / xp machines at work ? They run ctrl2cap - from sysinternals.com

      The battle hasn't been lost. The weak have given up.

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  4. Re: portable vs. portable by distributed.karma · · Score: 4, Funny
    > Someone with legacy Solaris programs that they need to make transportable

    So you can make the program portable even when it isn't portable? ;-)

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  5. Re:Define 64-bit by Alien+Being · · Score: 5, Funny

    main(){
    printf("My computer is %d bits\n", sizeof( int) * 8);
    }