6 Dec
1997
6 Dec
'97
3:52 p.m.
;-) Ward Donald Griffiths III head-scratched, yawned, then typed:
Sam Ismail wrote:
> Of course there's always the Unix laptops made
possible by our friend
> Linux. My friend once loaded Linux onto his 386/?? laptop. It worked
> like a champ.
I've been running Linux on portables since my first
DEC 325SL about
four years ago. What's this "once" stuff? I go back and forth
every day with a (this year) Everex StepNote P133 running Caldera
OpenLinux 1.1 with Red Hat CDE. Oh, there _is_ a 300MB partition
that still has Win95 (it came preloaded) for playing noisy games. I
boot that partition maybe every other week, it's not the default.
Sam had it wrong -- His friend loaded Linux "once," not the 542,000 times
required by Win95 before it might last 1/2 hour between crashes!!! ;-)
Oh, Roger: My vote for the "add-to-list laptop:"
The first internal floppy-based laptop, the Tandy 600. OEM'd by Zenith (not
Kyocera like the M100/T102/T200) and I believe somewhat rare as they went
over like a lead balloon (too bad - pretty good machine).
I run a Tandy 600 listserver and a Tandy 100/102/200 listserver as well, if
anyone wants info, please feel free to inquire.
Thanks,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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