Sharp Corp denies reports that it plans to enter the book-sized lap-top market, but the company is believed to have abandoned a product it planned to introduce after discovering that it would need to charge more for it than Toshiba Corp charges for its trail-blazing DynaBook: the DynaBook – which is unconnected with Dynabook Technologies Inc, San Jose – has an 80C86 processor and built-in floppy disk drive while Sharp’s initial design did not include a built-in drive; Sharp is said to have gone back to the drawing board and is believed to be planning to do a book-size AX-standard 80286-based machine, but the company still insists that it has no such plans, saying the reports must relate to an affiliate.
