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From: caserta@athena.mit.edu (Francesco Caserta)
Subject: Re: Unix Laptops
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References: <1991Apr29.144702.26756@colorado.edu> <17271@celit.fps.com> <1991May2.205640.524@keinstr.uucp>
Date: Mon, 6 May 91 19:49:42 GMT
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In article <1991May2.205640.524@keinstr.uucp> you write:
|> In article <17271@celit.fps.com> rory@fps.com (Rory Bolt) writes:
|> >Check out RDI's sparc based laptop... Runs SunOS 4.1.1 and is based on Sun's
|> >IPC board. 8-48 Megs ram, 120 Mbyte disk, thicknet & 10baseT, SCSI, serial,
|> >external monitor ports, monochrome LCD, 2 hour battery (I think...). Under
|> >15 pounds. Probably other features I have left out.
|> 
|> I saw an ad for this unit in a magazine and thought "Probably got *crummy*
|> display resolution."  Then I got a brochure in the mail.  The standard unit
|> is equipped with 640x480 monochrome LCD (ho hum) but options include
|> 1100x900 monochrome and color (hmmmm...).  Sounds *really* good on paper,
|> but I'd sure like to see it...
|> -- 
|> Roger Chaplin / Instruments Division Engineering / uunet!keinstr!chaplin
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|> "In the last analysis the customer is the independent auditor.  In the
|> merciless light of real use, every flaw will show." - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.



Is the brochure that you got in the mail the one from PARITY?
I also received it a week ago. They make big claims, as the one you
mention in your posting, that is high resolution color display.
Is all this stuff really available and at which price?
Personally, it's the first time I hear of PARITY.

If this is what you were talking about, I will be glad if you know if
there is someone who has had some experience with them. I'm looking for
a sparc laptop with a good color display, and as far as I know PARITY is
the only one claiming to have it.

Thanks.

Francesco Caserta
