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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:22:59 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for RISC 
Message-ID:  <199903011622.JAA07453@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 08:16:31 MST." <36DAAF4F.B558D7CF@softweyr.com> 
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In message <36DAAF4F.B558D7CF@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes:
: The NEC/Packard Bell outlet has refurbished MobilePro 450s for $99,
: if you have beta testers who need machines, Warner.  I have a back-
: door contact there if you have enough to consider doing a group buy, 
: say 10 or more machines.

I have gotten them on ebay for that price range.  Too bad I dropped
both of mine and shattered their screens.

I have doubts about 4M being enough memory to do anything beyond proof
of concept.  However, the chipset in them is capable of memory mapping
up to 16M of PCMCIA card space, which would effectively give them 20M
of main memory (but some interesting swap issues).

I am in contact with someone who is actively working on a linload-like
loader that I helped design.  It will boot kernels <= 256k now!  Too
bad my MobilePros are busted, or I'd focus my attention in those
areas.

Warner


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