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- Subject: Re: 386bsd on notebooks?
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- Date: 28 Aug 92 22:48:56 PDT
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- In article <1992Aug26.130133.26565@noao.edu>, on 26 Aug 92 13:01:33 GMT,
- rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens) writes:
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- >But, beware of network connectivity with a notebook. That's the
- >real problem. SLIP works so-so, mainly due to silo overflows,
- >and it's usually pretty hard to just swap in a 16550 in a notebook
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- IBM notebooks all seem to have 16550A uarts, at least in my school
- the IBM PS/2 Model N45SL with 2Meg of RAM (expandable to 8Meg) and
- including a 120Meg HD can be had for under $1900.
-
- Zeos, I understand, has a notebook with 10Meg of RAM, a 16550 uart
- and a 180Meg HD for about $3K.
-
- The issue of FIFOed uarts for notebooks is critical, manufacturers
- must be told in the strongest of terms that it only takes a few more
- pennies to give us 16550 uarts, they are all resisting so far...
- I look to the day when our notebooks come in with built ethernet,
- a FIFOed uart and a high-speed bi-directional parallel port.
-
- -- Denis
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