A laptop for running VMS.  Now THAT is funny.  Does this fall under the 
"inventions of dubious value" label?  What's that saying?  "... a 
submarine with a screen door..."

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From: 	Jonathan J. M. Katz[SMTP:jkatz@in.net]
Sent: 	Friday, September 13, 1996 3:54 PM
To: 	Martin Husemann; Chris G Demetriou
Cc: 	port-alpha@netbsd.org
Subject: 	Re: Alpha notebook=20

Very funny ;-)

>From what I heard it the Tadpole was only running VMS when it was 
released
with DEC Unix support "to come". I may be wrong on this one. I know 
someone
from the Linux camp was trying to make it work on this box, but I 
forget
who. NOTE: if you need to mail the Linux people use axp-list@redhat.com
instead of axplinux@vger.rutgers.edu. vger is overworked from what I 
hear.

-Jon

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> From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
> To: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Alpha notebook=20
> Date: Friday, September 13, 1996 5:39 PM
>=20
> > I found an intersting new machine, described at=20
> >=20
> > 	http://www.tadpole.com/Products/alphads.html
> >=20
> > Are there any chances, NetBSD will run on this?
>=20
> Well, i suppose there's a chance (if it supports the OSF/1 PALcode),
> since NetBSD runs on hardware that (at least in terms of CPU, etc.) 
is
> very similar=20
>=20
>=20
> I'd guess that it either behaves like an axppci33 (i.e. multia, udb,
> and several other similar systems) or like an eb6[68]*.  If the 
former
> (and if OSF/1 PALcode is present), it should Just Work (modulo power
> management stuff which may cause headaches).  If the latter, it won't
> work yet.
>=20
>=20
> Given the specs i saw on it, X won't run on it (PCI VGA) but that's
> no big surprise.
>=20
>=20
> If you want to buy me one, i'll do what I can to make it work...  8-)
>=20
>=20
> chris
>=20
>=20
>=20
> =01=01=01=01