[dayglored]

> back in the 80's one of the first laptops had Windows on a chip, same with Lotus and a couple other programs too... real fast for the day

Ummmm, huh?

1. Laptop in the 80's? What brand/model?

2. Windows in the 80's? Windows 1.0? Unusable. It wasn't 2.0 until 1990 and that sucked swamp water too. Windows wasn't real until 3.1 around 1993.

3. Windows on a chip? Whose chip?

I don't get what you said at all....

[dayglored]

> It wasn't 2.0 until 1990 and that sucked swamp water too. Windows wasn't real until 3.1 around 1993.

I'm off a little. 2.0 was released in 1987. I started playing with it in 1990, so it was probably a later 2.x version.

And 3.1 was 1992, not 1993.

Nevertheless, I'm astonished that there was something called Windows on a chip in the 80's. Tell me more...

[Chode]

it was in one of the trade mags... instead of loading windows etc on a hard drive it had half a dozen chip sockets and one of chips had the whole windows os on it, same with Lotus. it was the ultimate copy protection scheme.

the thing never took off though. it was supposed to be real fast cause it never had to look at the disk. i only saw the ad a couple times and that was, well, back in the 80's, but i want to say it was called the WinBook. the ad showed the the chip socket bay with the cover off and one of the chips said Lotus on it.