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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:28:38 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
Cc:        Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SUMMARY: Apple Newton MessagePad 
Message-ID:  <27979.872375318@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:38:56 MDT." <199708220538.XAA07669@obie.softweyr.ml.org> 

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Wes Peters wrote in message ID
<199708220538.XAA07669@obie.softweyr.ml.org>:
> Marco Molteni writes:
> The WinCE's as a group are pretty lame: although they have bigger
> screens and a keyboard, most of them are not much more functional that
> the Pilot, but cost nearly as much as a Newton.  Most of them have a
> PCMCIA/PCcard slot, but you can't run it on batteries, only when plugged
> into the wall.  What a crock.

And beware the CE version of windows if you are trying to dial into a
`normal' ISP that doesn't let WINS (137?) DNS queries (i.e. doesn't
run SAMBA or something) ... apparently CE can only use WINS DNS
queries.

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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