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From: mwalls@nyx.cs.du.edu (Monty Walls)
Subject: Re: UNIX on PC Laptops
Message-ID: <1993Jun5.034832.7018@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 93 03:48:32 GMT
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storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
> We are going to be purchasing a few notebooks in the next little
> while and were just wondering what our UNIX options for these
> were. We will most likely get some TI laptops---One will be a
> 486 and the others will be 386SL/25s...
> Any thoughts, suggestions, or pointers to documents describing
> exactly this would be greatly appreciated.
I have been running ESIX V.4.03 for about 20 months on a little
Compudyne 386sx/20 with 387sx, 10meg of ram and a 60 mg. hd. Xfree 1.2 runs
in mono-no color. The only problems I've had has been broken hinges(replaced).
Compatibility will be your real problem(not really UNIX's fault-notebook's
power conservation hardware). Check if your planned hardware will run NT and
OS/2 without special drivers, if so you probably will be ok also. You will
probably need to write special drivers for any of the power conservation
support you want to enable(I had to). I suspect any of the USL v.4 derived
ports will be fine, I also tested 386BSD's basic boot disk and it makes a good
basic compatibility test also(mine passed). Good luck.
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