BRAIL@SEISMO.ARPA (03/06/85)
-------Forwarded from Usenet-------- 4-Mar-85 00:59:46-EST,2123;000000000001 Return-Path: <topaz!packard!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor@topaz> Received: from topaz.ARPA by RU-BLUE.ARPA with TCP; 4 Mar 85 00:59:43 EST Received: by topaz.ARPA; Mon, 4 Mar 85 01:00:19 est Received: by topaz.ARPA; Mon, 4 Mar 85 01:00:13 est Date: 3 Mar 1985 21:00-CST From: topaz!packard!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx.sphinx!shor@topaz (Melinda Shore,staff 002,53971,,staf) Subject: new HP portable Message-Id: <478753254/shor@sphinx> Received: by ihnp4.ATT.UUCP; id AA15262; 3 Mar 85 23:41:04 CST (Sun) Received: by gargoyle.UChicago (4.12/4.7) id AA11619; Sun, 3 Mar 85 23:39:33 cst Received: by sphinx.UChicago (4.12/4.7) id AA03504; Sun, 3 Mar 85 21:10:53 cst Received: from ihnp4.UUCP by py/garage/packard.DK; 8503040539 To: topaz!ru-blue!brail@topaz Yes, there's been a bunch of articles about this little beast in misc. magazines. We have one, and it's been pretty neat, in spite of the numerous limitations. It has a moderately high-res electroluminescent screen. Talking about lines x columns is kind of meaningless, since, like the Mac, the screen is bit mapped and the user can use any one of a number of fonts in any window. It even comes with a font editor. The Unix in ROM is system III. They say they'll be upgrading to system V, but have no plans to go to 4.2 (alas!). Anyway, the 'only' part of Unix in ROM is the Kernel. The shells and 4 bezillion utilities are on disk. Therein lies the rub. Even though the diskettes are fairly high capacity (700K), they ain't high enough. It's impossible to keep all the stuff one normally needs on one diskette, and there's nowhere near enough room available in the RAMdisk to hold them, either. For example, the preprocessor for the C compiler is on one diskette, while the compiler proper is on another. Also, if you're interested in doing development on this thing, you'll need a full meg of RAM. And it comes with *no* serial port. So, it's a less than ideal development machine. On the other hand, I think it would make a g r e a t application engine. Melinda Shore University of Chicago Computation Center ----------End forwarded message-------- -------
ogasawar@noscvax.UUCP (Todd H. Ogasawara) (05/15/85)
Is there a Kermit for the HP Portable (aka HP110) lap portable?
Thanks in advance for any leads?
Todd Ogasawara, Computer Sciences Corp.
NOSC-Hawaii Laboratories
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