[SPARCbook] Okay: list will stay as-is

[Lionel Peterson]

Not really, no.

What are you hoping to do? Solaris/OpenSolaris runs well on many x86  
laptops, see http://opensolaris.org/os/ for more info...

On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:15 AM, marianrandy1 at earthlink.net wrote:

> Are sparcbooks or Solaris compatible with any windows stuff?If not  
> what programs are compatible?   --Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>> Sent: Jan 2, 2009 11:30 PM
>> To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [SPARCbook] Okay: list will stay as-is
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Okay, the list will stay as-is for at least another year.  It's  
>> basically
>> zero maintenance for me and I have more important things to do than  
>> delete
>> a list and archive the contents somewhere right now. 8-)
>>
>> I think Tadpole (aka General Dynamics/Tadpole/Whatever) is the only  
>> company
>> currently making SPARC-based laptops. [1]
>>
>> I did a review of Naturetech's Meso999 (the Ultra 3) in 2005:
>> http://www.sunhelp.org/review-hardware-naturetech-meso999/
>>
>> And here's pictures of the Proso2400:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/sets/674997/
>>
>> I know I wrote a review of the 2400, but I can't *find* it!  Not in  
>> the
>> site archives, not in my personal archives, etc.  All I can find is  
>> the
>> pictures.
>>
>> NatureTech appears to have gone out of business; their web page now  
>> goes to
>> some sort of real estate company.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> [1] Annoying: 4 years ago my contact at Tadpole had promised to  
>> send me an
>> older SPARC-based laptop of some sort, newer than the SPARCBook 3  
>> series,
>> in exchange for advertising I ran for them on SunHELP.  Shortly  
>> thereafter,
>> they got bought by GD, all of my contacts stopped responding, and I  
>> got
>> nothing whatsoever out of the deal.  Nowdays, SunHELP costs more  
>> money than
>> it brings in, but I continue running it as a "labor of love", with  
>> the
>> occasional donation and Wish List purchase making up for my time.
>>
>> -- 
>> Bill Bradford
>> Houston, Texas
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