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The HandBook 486 also has a pointing device similar to the IBM trackpoint located on the right hand side of the keyboard just above the enter key. The Gateway HandBook remains one of the smallest laptops ever produced and was a precursor to Netbooks such as the Asus Eee PC , the Dell Inspiron Mini Series , and the Acer Aspire One .
This was a revolutionary idea at the time, because people wouldn't be able to see or touch their computer before buying it. Aside from Dell and Gateway, popular brands of mail-order PCs were Northgate and Zeos. The company was known for its quality systems and keyboards; in particular, its line of OmniKey keyboards was highly praised. [2]
Like the later and more famous Cyrix Cx5x86, it is a hybrid CPU, incorporating features of a new CPU (the Intel 80486) while plugging into its predecessor's (386DX) PGA132 socket. It runs at speeds of 25, 33, and 40 MHz. [4] The 486DLC can be described as a 386DX with the 486 instruction set and 1 KB of on-board L1 cache added.
Industry standard ISA/PCI architecture, [1] first IBM machines with USB.Processors ranged from the 486DX2-50, 486SX-25, 486DX4-100 to the Pentium 200 and in case of the Models 360 and 365 the Pentium Pro. 486 models had a selectable bus architecture (SelectaBus) through a replaceable riser-card, offering the choice of either VESA Local Bus/ISA or PCI/ISA.
The company's first PC related product was the PC Speeder, a device designed to increase the clock speed (and thereby the performance) of the 8086 processor. The company then began work engineering a motherboard to retrofit the soon-to-be-introduced Intel 386 processor on their existing 286 platform.
To emphasize its office image IBM released in that same year 6 new programs: task inventory, billing, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable and general ledger accounting. [ 1 ] Aside from larger screen size and performance benefits over its predecessor, the IBM 5120 design incorporated several usability advantages:
Compaq worked with Network General which released branded versions of the Compaq Portable 486 as "Network Sniffers". [7] A case-modified version of the colour screen variant with replaced internals was used as a prop in the 1995 film Hackers. With its internals replaced by those of a Macintosh laptop, it served as the character Dade Murphy's ...
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 486-2012 of 30 March 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 809-2004 as regards the format and the content of the prospectus, the base prospectus, the summary and the final terms and as regards the disclosure requirements (Text with EEA relevance)