7 May
2021
7 May
'21
10:36 a.m.
From: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
Message-ID: <9D8BADA7-B597-42E1-99C8-4CC751F838C5 at comcast.net>
Another part of the puzzle was figuring out how to feed 100 watts of power to a
chip,?> and get rid of that amount of heat, neither of which were anywhere close to
what was
done at the time.? I still have some of the tech reports that describe that piece (and
I?>contributed a wild idea -- which unfortunately DEC didn't get around to
patenting?>before the project was shut down).
Back in the mid-90s, there was an outfit in Britain which made some laptops using Alpha
processors.? 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".
Dick
7 May
7 May
12:53 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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3:07 p.m.
On May 7, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I?ve had my eye?s out for one for more like 20+ years. I do have a Tadpole SparcBook 3GS
(? something like that), that was a pretty cool system.
These if I needed OpenVMS on a laptop, I?d simply run it via emulator or virtualization
(not an option for Itanium). I gather that at least some development on OpenVMS 9.2 is
being done on VM?s running on the developers laptops.
I seem to recall that the Tadpole AlphaBook performance is roughly on par with the DEC
Multia, which is to say, not very good. Though I don?t think I ever got OpenVMS running
on my Multia.
Zane
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! 
8 May
8 May
5:46 p.m.
On 5/7/21 5:07 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On May 7, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I?ve had my eye?s out for one for more like 20+ years. I do have a Tadpole SparcBook 3GS
(? something like that), that was a pretty cool system.
These if I needed OpenVMS on a laptop, I?d simply run it via emulator or virtualization
(not an option for Itanium). I gather that at least some development on OpenVMS 9.2 is
being done on VM?s running on the developers laptops.
I seem to recall that the Tadpole AlphaBook performance is roughly on par with the DEC
Multia, which is to say, not very good. Though I don?t think I ever got OpenVMS running
on my Multia.
I have an ALPHAbook. You're right, it's about the speed of the Multia.
The batteries I have are dead, but when they were still working the
run time wasn't very long.
--
Eric Dittman
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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