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