Re: Solaris on ThinkPad 760XL

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From: Alexander Wagner (A.Wagner_at_Bigfoot.de)
Date: Sun Aug 08 1999 - 12:05:06 EDT

On Sun, 08 Aug 1999 07:24:58 -0700, Stuart F. Biggar wrote:

> > Frankly, if you're looking for Unix on a notebook, I'd go with Linux. I
> > don't even think that Solaris X86 is being supported (any more) for the
> > notebook platforms, meaning problems galore with PCMCIA drivers, etc. Now
> > for the specifics:
>
>True that Sun has dropped support for notebooks in Solaris 7 but the
>760ED was explicitly supported in 2.5.1 DU and the video was included in
>2.6 so it is probably still in 7. PCMCIA support is still in 7
>including a driver for the 3C589 and for real PCMCIA modems and some
>SRAM cards and ATA devices.

Your 760 must be supported by Solaris. NASA will run these machines (760ED and
XD) on the ISS (alias Alpha Spacestation) in that configuration. So they must
get it to work somehow... 

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