New subject: Televideo TS802 in Silicon Valley

30 Apr 1998

Tony Duell wrote:

...
   Heck, I'd
like to see a good computer taxonomy (you know, kingdom=digital, 
 phylum=silicon, class=portable, order=laptop, family=grid,
 genus=1500-series, species=1535-EXP). 
 On the grounds that all laptops are portables, I think I'd rather see 
 something like 

 kingdom = {analogue, digital, quantum}
 Phylum = {silicon, GaAs, Germanium (?), hollow-state, mechanical} 
 Class = {Mainframe, Mini, Workstation, Micro}
 Order = {Rackmount, deskside, desktop, luggable, laptop, notebook, palmtop}

 (I know of at least one luggable mini, and I think a Sparcbook could 
 reasonably be called a laptop workstation) 
Ummm.  Given the number of hybrids around (as we have seen from more 
recent posts), your system might be better.  But AFAIK in the taxonomy 
used by biologists etc. the list of available classes is different for 
each phylum, the list of available orders different for each class, etc.

But I have a computer that is hybrid analogue/digital (an EAI-1000, I 
think it's called, which is an analogue computer with a microprocessor 
doing an embedded control type job to run the system)...

Philip.

PS Luggable Mini = P850?

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