It's a pity Alfredo chose to change the subject line, I rather liked what
it was called up to now.  :)

Anyway, I went surfing to Tadpole (www.tadpole.com).  It seems they are
treating the Precisionbook as a legacy item.  Still supported, but no
longer sold.  It was built on a PA-7300LC architecture. It came with 128MB
with a maximum of 512.

The disc drive was a 12GB SCSI drive.  Pretty neat actually and you could
have up to 3 disk drives.  I am not sure what bus architecture it was
built-on, but that is where the problems would be for MPE to run on this
puppy.  You would need to have MPE drivers for the devices.

BTW, I draw you attention to the following story:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5256515.html

This is about the announcement today from IBM about a laptop disk drive
with a capacity of 48GB @ 5,400 RPM.  It spins on liquid rather than ball
bearings.

I want one of those.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
(800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com                             www.hicomp.com


-----Original Message-----
From:   F. Alfredo Rego [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, March 27, 2001 6:17 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Running MPE/iX on portable hardware (was ...LEGATO...)

Greg Cagle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Tadpole/RDI makes a PA-RISC laptop/portable/luggable. It's a PA-7200 based
>machine.
>They also make some good SPARC laptops that run Solaris.

I'm sure this machine runs HP-UX and, where HP-UX runs, MPE/iX has
a good chance of running (perhaps with a little hardware "assist" :-)

Can one install MPE/iX on it?  Can one buy a part from HP/CSY that
would "enable" such a machine to run MPE/iX?  How much would an MPE/iX
license cost for such a machine?

Always looking for ways to increase CSY's revenue while helping our
lower (and upper) backs when it comes to lugging portable MPE/iX
machines,


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