[geeks] First color laptop?

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Mon Jun 17 14:59:43 CDT 2002


On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:55:46PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 08:53:33PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:09:55PM -0400, Ethan wrote:
> > > There is no way you could put an IP stack on [a trash-80]
> > Why not?  How much memory did they have?
> Originally 8k, but could be upgraded to 32k.x

[looks across room]

that computer over there --> fits SLIP, IP, TCP, a dns server and a telnet
client into 10K.  It uses another few K for buffering etc, but you could
easily do it in 32k, and quite possibly in 8 if you were careful.

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