[SPARCbook] Okay: list will stay as-is

[marianrandy1 at earthlink.net]

Well, if I ever have time to see if one of laptops works, what do y.all use Sparcs for? Seiously-I collect everything inc computers

-----Original Message-----
>From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 4, 2009 9:46 AM
>To: SPARC-based Portable Workstations <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Okay: list will stay as-is
>
>On Jan 3, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 12:18 PM 1/3/09, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> 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...
>>
>> Yes but it feels so much better when you run it on what it was  
>> originally designed for.  ;-)
>
>Well, there is that, but the OP was asking about running windows apps  
>under Solaris, and since Windows was "originally designed for" x86  
>hardware, I stand by my suggestion.
>
>Hypervisors, etc. would allow you to run Windows and Solaris side-by- 
>side on an x86 laptop, if that is what you want.
>
>There is also WABI, and, if your needs are modest enough, and the  
>SPARC hardware has either SBUS or PCI expansion slots, SunPCi options  
>are possible, but those options would be in the "luggable" type  
>portables...
>
>Lionel
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