From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Apr 5 21:47:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA26125 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 21:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.49.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA26108 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 21:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de(really [192.76.124.5]) by hcshh.hcs.de via sendmail with smtp id for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 07:47:10 +0200 (METDST) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #1 built 1997-Mar-17) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #12) id m0wDkn3-0000beC; Sun, 6 Apr 97 07:46 METDST Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Looking for 486 laptop recomendations To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 07:46:57 +0200 (METDST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mark Mayo" at "Apr 5, 97 11:10:16 pm" Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Mark Mayo: > Hi all. I've decided that I would like to get a laptop to run FreeBSD on. > My logic is as follows: I only want a console, so an older 486 with a > black&white LCD and 8MB of RAm should be just fine - and CHEAP! A year or so ago i bought a used DEC HiNote, 486 sl or sx with a monochrome display and i'm _very_ satisfied with it running FreeBSD. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Hamburg, Europe In their infinite wisdom, the folks at HP have decided that mere mortals such as you and I don't need to know what the kernel's proc structure looks like. (William LeFebvre, top 3.4 README, HP-UX 10.10)