7 May
2021
7 May
'21
7:53 p.m.
Back in the mid-90s, there was an outfit in Britain
which made some
laptops using Alpha processors.
That was the Tadpole ALPHAbook. Not many of those got to the outside world.
Been watching for one for over a decade. For a period of time it was the
fastest laptop available and it was reportedly not overly unpleasant to use
(my Tadpole Viper, on the other hand, *is* unpleasant to use).
There was a rumor inside DECin the same time-frame
about DEC engineers
prototyping an Alpha-based laptop (which never made it to market).
The rumor included the internal code-name... "BURNS".
I don't doubt it!
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