From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 14:30:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09686 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:30:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.rnl.ist.utl.pt (ns.rnl.ist.utl.pt [193.136.164.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09569 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lmmdpl@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt) Received: from camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt (0@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt [193.136.164.11]) by ns.rnl.ist.utl.pt (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20761 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 22:31:18 GMT Received: from camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt (rcu87.rnl.ist.utl.pt [193.136.154.87]) by camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04767 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 22:28:05 GMT Message-ID: <34D1E2D3.743EE62C@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:25:23 +0000 From: Luis Ponce de Leao X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.32 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A truly losing laptop for FreeBSD. References: <19719.886161097@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Toshiba laptops suck in other ways, too, at least the Satellites do...they > > have slower-than-usual PCMCIA buses, which cramps performance if you're > > using, say, a PCMCIA hard drive or an encryption token. > > Perhaps so, but it's also sorta not the point - we're supposed to be > able to work on anything. :-( > > Jordan FreeBSD (2.2.5), actually works quite well on the Toshiba Satellite 110CS... although the PCMCIA stuff, is true... disk access looks faster than, Linux, Windows NT or Windows95. But network performance is very poor. Luis