* Re: [9fans] WORM recomendations?
@ 2001-01-17 4:55 okamoto
2001-01-17 21:55 ` [9fans] Laptops and /lib/vgadb (Was: Re: Worm Recommendations?) Dan Cross
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From: okamoto @ 2001-01-17 4:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>It's a Toshiba 3440CT.
Toshiba, damn it! :-)
I used notebook(laptop) three times, and all the experience was negative.
Only once I thought it's valuable when I brought it to US with linux on it.
It was a Taiwanese 486/SX machine (and was cheap, but not beatiful), though.
My Tecra 720CT looks like very nice machine for Plan 9, because I feel
craftsmanship from it, once it was found everywhere in my mother country.
Kenji
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* Re: [9fans] Laptops and /lib/vgadb (Was: Re: Worm Recommendations?)
2001-01-17 4:55 [9fans] WORM recomendations? okamoto
@ 2001-01-17 21:55 ` Dan Cross
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From: Dan Cross @ 2001-01-17 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
In article <20010117045533.DCF41199EC@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>>It's a Toshiba 3440CT.
>
>Toshiba, damn it! :-)
>
>I used notebook(laptop) three times, and all the experience was negative.
Really? My IBM Thinkpad T21 pretty much ran out of the box. I had to
add a line to /lib/vgadb, but that was it. Certainly, getting Plan 9
on it was a lot easier than FreeBSD. Unfortunately, there's no driver
for the audio hardware. (If there is, and anyone knows about it,
please let me know---I'd love to listen to music without draining the
batteries on my discman.)
(Speaking of /lib/vgadb, the line I added is:
0xC0045="S3 Savage\IX BIOS Ver. 4.02.50 - 39"
And it was added to the stanza containing other Savage entries. I'm
not sure who to send that to, ultimately.)
>Only once I thought it's valuable when I brought it to US with linux on it.
>It was a Taiwanese 486/SX machine (and was cheap, but not beatiful), though.
Man, with my dinky apartment in New York, a laptop is about the only
computer I can use. :-) I just wish I had a bigger display.
>My Tecra 720CT looks like very nice machine for Plan 9, because I feel
>craftsmanship from it, once it was found everywhere in my mother country.
:-)
- Dan C.
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* Re: [9fans] Laptops and /lib/vgadb (Was: Re: Worm Recommendations?)
@ 2001-01-18 1:10 okamoto
2001-01-18 19:29 ` Dan Cross
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From: okamoto @ 2001-01-18 1:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>>I used notebook(laptop) three times, and all the experience was negative.
>Really? My IBM Thinkpad T21 pretty much ran out of the box. I had to
Sorry, it's my fault of shortage of words.
I didn't say it on Plan 9, but an experience as a general notebook. The most
negative point was/is non-expandability of notebooks, which leads to very
short life time compared with its price. This was my argument to notebooks.
Kenji
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* Re: [9fans] Laptops and /lib/vgadb (Was: Re: Worm Recommendations?)
2001-01-18 1:10 okamoto
@ 2001-01-18 19:29 ` Dan Cross
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From: Dan Cross @ 2001-01-18 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
In article <20010118011101.C5C17199F2@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>Sorry, it's my fault of shortage of words.
No, I think I just misinterpreted your email.... My bad.
>I didn't say it on Plan 9, but an experience as a general notebook. The most
>negative point was/is non-expandability of notebooks, which leads to very
>short life time compared with its price. This was my argument to notebooks.
Yes, I agree that this is very lame....
- Dan C.
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