stecz@hotwheel.dell.com (John Steczkowski) (04/12/90)
In article <1617@satsuki.japan.sun.com>, gaijin@ale.Japan.Sun.COM (John Little - Nihon Sun Repair Depot) writes: > > > Does anyone out there use *nix on *any* make of laptop?? > Dell sells a 386sx laptop that runs UNIX. We support Dell UNIX on it, which is based on ISC UNIX. John Steczkowski Dell Unix Customer Support P#: (512) 343-3571 9505 Arboretum Blvd. !s: uunet!dell!hotwheel!stecz Austin, Texas 78759 @s: stecz@hotwheel.dell.com
gda@creare.creare.UUCP (Gray Abbott) (04/13/90)
The Zenith 386 Supersport is advertised as compatible with Xenix (which is a pretty solid Unix these days). Damark is selling these for $3000. Does anyone have any experience, good or bad, with them? Is it an SX? Also, has anyone tried out the new Grid 386SX machine? It seems to have a lot of nice features (built-in modem, low weight, long battery time). I talked to them and you can only get a 40 Mb drive, which makes UNIX a little tight, but, hey, it's a laptop (or a "phonebook" by some press accounts). I also heard from someone that Grids are built very well, but I'm not sure he wasn't looking at their 286 model, which, I believe, was somebody else's (Zenith?).
schnable@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (andrew.schnable) (04/13/90)
From article <1617@satsuki.japan.sun.com>, by gaijin@ale.Japan.Sun.COM (John Little - Nihon Sun Repair Depot): > > Does anyone out there use *nix on *any* make of laptop?? > I don't run UNIX on my T1000SE (isn't this the US version of the Dynabook?), but I do run MKS toolkit. MKS provides many UNIX utilities (including ksh and vi), and runs on top of DOS. After compressing my favorite MKS binaries with LZEXE - I still have almost half of my 1.44M floppy left over. Andy Schnable schnable@cbnewsc.att.com
craig@unify.uucp (Craig Isaacs) (04/14/90)
In article <1617@satsuki.japan.sun.com> gaijin@ale.Japan.Sun.COM (John Little - Nihon Sun Repair Depot) writes: > > I seem to recall seeing an advertisment in a U.S. newspaper a while > ago for a Toshiba laptop running a variant of Unix. Here in Japan, > Toshiba's "Dynabook" range seems to be limited to DOS. > > Was I imagining this or can someone confirm and give details (model, > version of *nix and general impressions)?? > > Does anyone out there use *nix on *any* make of laptop?? > My company, Unify Corporation, uses T5100s and T5200s for demonstrating our UNIX software (ACCELL and UNIFY). Most of the machines use SCO XENIX (off-the-shelf); however, Toshiba sells T/PIX (or is it TP/IX?) and the Interactive UNIX works, too. (I would bet that the other flavors, including ESIX, would work as well....) My machine is set up as follows: T5200 4 MB RAM 100 MB HD Serial mouse No extra cards 22 MB in the DOS partition 78 MB in the XENIX partition I tried to put both DOS and XENIX on a T5100 with only 40MB, but I found myself removing files daily in order to make room for everything. (Personally, I look forward to the 200MB+ hard disks for these machines. 8) Also, I read in a paper yesterday (sorry, I read approx. 12 mag/week, so I do not remember which rag) that Bob Kavner (AT&T UNIX Head Honcho) is talking about a very small, runtime UNIX for retail that would compete directly with OS/2. (I think I created my own version when I had the 40 MB disk, because I removed 1/2 of the XENIX system files!) General impressions: I love it! I just wish that the DOS emulation stuff under XENIX was faster so I could run them both at the same time... For now, I will use XENIX because I like the 10+ virtual terminals I automatically get. Also, if there is any question about getting the T5100 or the T5200, go for the 5200 - I can add more memory, there is an extra serial port (I use one for a mouse and the other for comm), and an *industry standard* slot. (The 5100s is Toshiba proprietary :( ) Good luck! Craig P.S. Although possible, I certainly would not run *nix on anything other less than a 386 at this point.... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Isaacs internet: craig@unify.UUCP Unify Corporation ...!{csusac,pyramid}!unify!craig