From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 23 15:28:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA18066 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 15:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18061 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 15:28:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id SAA00940; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:28:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id SAA27981; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:28:38 -0400 (EDT) To: Wes Peters cc: Marco Molteni , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Apple Newton MessagePad In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:38:56 MDT." <199708220538.XAA07669@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:28:38 -0400 Message-ID: <27979.872375318@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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