SPARC laptop?

[Karen Birkelbach]

|>This machine supposedly is an SunOS laptop, with MSDOS and Mac OS
|>emulations available.  The price of US$ 10,800 is not nothing for an 8-48
|>Mb main memory, 240Mb on board disk, 12.5 MIPS machine.
|>
|>We are interested in this machine, specially because it offers both MSDOS
|>and Mac OS emulations.  Is there anyone who can tell me more about it?
|>Reliabillity, features/performance of the emulations?
|
|An editor at SunWorld has been promised a review unit, Real Soon Now. As
|soon as we get our grubby mitts on one we will put it through SunWorld's
|lab. 
|
|> It seems disk space (120MEG) is the biggest problem as this is nowhere
|> near enough to be useful here.
|
|Indeed, when I am out of office and the network disks are unavailable,
|disk space is what I need in a portable SPARC.   RDI & Co., leave all
|batteries and Mac emulations out, just build in 600 meg or so.  IBM has
|got 400 meg disk in their PS luggable and that is just about the minimum.

Since I just get the digest, I don't know what the current discussion on
this topic is, but I've found a second supplier for the BriteLite in
Dallas.  Parity Systems, Inc. of Campbell, CA is selling an identical item
with a 200 MB disk drive now with quite a few extras available.

The MSDOS emulators that each company uses is different.  Parity uses Dos
Windows from SUN (ugh!) and RDI is using SoftPC from Insignia (???).

RDI doesn't have a distributor network set up yet, but Parity does.
Apparently the only way to get a demo is if you know someone that has one
that will bring it to you to look at.  The people I talked to in Dallas
(Parity's dist.) said they are being sold as fast as they can make them,
leaving little for demo units.

Karen Birkelach              Instrumentation and Space Research Division
Karen.Birkelbach at swri.edu                   Southwest Research Institute
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