Re: Obtaining a laptop

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, R.A.Fletcher wrote:

> If you don't have any luck with the prior suggestions, there's 
> MicroMart, again available in Newsagents. UKP1 is the price, or it 

I think I've found one in the FreeAds, but if that falls through I'll
definitely take a look at MicroMart.

> Also, what would you use the laptop for without X Windows? Non-
> XWindows development? Putting documents together to then 

Everything Linux at the moment.  I don't have access to a Linux box (I';m
restricted to idiotic Novell DOS boxes <shudder) and I really, really want
one.  I've never taken a serious stab at X-windows development, would you
believe - never been a real fan of the graphical computing paradigm.  Mainly
console development work, system drivers and so forth (I might contribute a
PCMCIA driver if I need to).  I also believe that LaTeX is the One True
document preparation system, and Linux is THE place to do that.

> exporting to another machine? It wouldn't be as a web server, and 

Web server?  On a Laptop?  Not unless I was hosting some rather... shall we
say, interesting material.  And not off a 500Mb disk...

> you obviously have free internet access, so quite probably not for 
> checking your mail. Just curiosity you understand.

I might play mail-and-news on the Linux box, because it's so much nicer than
under DOS/Win 3.11.  That's why I'm still using my UoW account - I can't
stand PMail, and they've got pine on the machines at Wollongong... <g>

You can be curious all you want - when I don't want to say any more, I
won't.  <grin>


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