[inforoots] GRiD and the IEEE 488 GPIB

[rweaver at ix.netcom.com]

>Dick, I think you're going to be outvoted on this one.  :)
>
>I think "portable" in the computer sense is what matters, not portable in
>the dictionary sense.  And portable in the computer sense is (as you know)
>"carryable as with a suitcase" ... Say, how much did a 610 weigh in pounds?
>If the answer is "almost as much as its user" then it ain't portable.
>
>"Relatively easily movable," perhaps.  But so is a Volkswagen. 

When you are functioning as a computer user, there are computers you are intended to take your work to and their are computers that you are intended to bring to where you want to work.  

Computers that you, the user, are intended to bring to where you want to work, are, from your user viewpoint, portable.

People with non-user tasks, will have different descriptions of portability. 

dick w