15 Oct
2012
15 Oct
'12
9:44 a.m.
>>>> Of course. Anything done with chips
can also be done with discrete
>>>> components.
>>> a "pentium" laptop ?
>> Since nobody said how big the board could be... Multiple full AT sized
>> boards in a backplane for a luggable Pentium "laptop"? :)
> battery life?
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, David Riley wrote:
A car battery should power that sort of thing for a
reasonable amount
of time;
for some very quick value of "reasonable".
you'd probably have to carry that in a backpack,
but as long
as the major computing portion could fit on your lap (for a dubious
definition of "fit"), you could probably still call it a laptop.
Is it still a "laptop", when it is tethered to a truck for power?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com