From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] ipaq installation changes From: John Murdie To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: john@cs.york.ac.uk In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1054830809.1365.50.camel@pc118> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:33:29 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c5748d0a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 17:06, Jack Johnson wrote: > I always thought that if I shelled out the money, I'd attempt to utilize > one as a PARCTab on steroids: > > http://sandbox.parc.xerox.com/parctab/ > ... > -Jack Not long to wait now for the Oqo (http://www.oqo.com/), if you want a real PC you can hold in your hand - release date September 2003. (Yes, I know of the Antelope, Tiqit, Zaurii etc and, yes, the lack of a keyboard or mouse is actually an advantage - think Intel's portable personal server - http://www.intel.com/research/exploratory/personal_server.htm). Perhaps the OQO isn't vapourware, after all! (See Wired http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57023-2,00.html). There's a nice picture of an OQO prototype at http://www.danionics.com/sw1226.asp. John A. Murdie Department of Computer Science University of York