> Back in the mid-90s, there was an outfit in Britain which made some > laptops using Alpha processors.
That was the Tadpole ALPHAbook. Not many of those got to the outside world. Been watching for one for over a decade. For a period of time it was the fastest laptop available and it was reportedly not overly unpleasant to use (my Tadpole Viper, on the other hand, *is* unpleasant to use). > There was a rumor inside DECin the same time-frame about DEC engineers > prototyping an Alpha-based laptop (which never made it to market). > The rumor included the internal code-name... "BURNS". I don't doubt it! -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. -- Ambrose Bierce ------------------