New subject: [9fans] Off the shelves plan9-compatible desktop (fwd)

21 Feb 2003


      could this be the long-awaited linuxbios laptop? I think most of those 
chips work ...
ron
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:12:55 +0000
From: Derek Fawcus dfawcus@cisco.com
Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Off the shelves plan9-compatible desktop
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:18:51PM +0900, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
...
As I got tired of debugging, I travelled into internet, and found
Lindows Mobile PC, which may be nice also to Plan 9.
However, I cann't figure it out whether it has 3 button mouse pad.
It looks like so...
12.1" 1024x768 TFT
VIA C3 933 MHz Processor,   <--- what's that?
An x86 compatible processor made by VIA.  It has poor FPU performance but
reasonable integer performance.  It's basically an i686 but with a semi
implemented CMOV instruction.
...
VIA VT8606(Twister-T) + VT82C686B chipset,
Savage 4 AGP (which Russ's favurite chip?), 
Realtek 10/100 LAN chip,
20GB ATA HDD
Lindows3.0 OS <---- what's it?
A Linux derived OS
...
10.43x8.66x0.91" AND 2.9lbs (1.6kg)!
any opinion?
well if I was in the market for a laptop,  I might well buy one...
however,  what I'd really like is a light enougth pad computer - all
that I've seen so far are too heavy.
DF

Re: [9fans] Off the shelves plan9-compatible desktop (fwd)