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		anovikov on May 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640K... Why so small? 24cm width wtf? Why not a full sized laptop? Screen will be basically invisible, size of a typical smartphone screen. Also 16:9 screen ratio will definitely work poorly with almost all nontrivial DOS apps.

Frenchgeek on May 19, 2023 [–]

Because that's what they had on hand (at the right price) to get rid of all that old hardware, I suspect.

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