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> you'd better know what you're doing for NeXTSTep - I thought > the NeXT company specifically recommended users to stay away > from ThinkPads ? > > Edmund. Was so until recently, but Next has just released a video driver for the 755CX, so presumably someone there has tried this combination successfully, and at least somewhat officially. I was quite excited about this news as I do Nextstep development for a living and the SVGA TP would make one of the better mobile platforms for NS, not least of all because the TP shares a bit of the sleek visual aesthetic of the old black Motorola-based NeXTstations we knew and loved :-) However, like Ivo, I'm concerned about the installation. Normally you would have to install Nextstep onto an Intel machine via a SCSI CD-ROM or hard-drive, and I don't think a PCMCIA connection will do for this. That leaves Ivo's solution of installing it onto the TP IDE drive grafted into a desktop machine, which should work according to the earlier traffic on the list which suggests that the internal connector on the bare drive is a standard one (warranty be damned, full screwdrivers ahead!). Or, what about using the Dock? Two possibilites here: 1. The Adaptec AHA-1532P internal "custom" adapter is really just a flavour of the Next-supported 1542C, in which case you just attach a CD-ROM and go! 2. The internal adaptor is unsupported, but then you ought to be able to stick a 1540 or 1542 into a free ISA slot while somehow disabling the default adapter. Then again, I wonder if there's something non-standard about how the Dock extends the TP's internal bus that confounds Nextstep? Anyone have any information on this? Oh, and how good is PCMCIA support, 'cause a Nextstation without Ethernet would be a travesty. Ivo? --- Tim Vetter tim.vetter@ubs.com (ASCII) Forex & Fixed Income Trading Development Union Bank of Switzerland voice: (+41) 1/2358422 fax: (+41) 1/2355129 snailmail: LEIT/LITH-VFR Postfach 8021 Zurich, Switzerland
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