Also on the Unix front, Toshiba Corp has been sponsoring a Toshiba Sparc laptop fair. The company announced a new model of its Sparc-LT laptop, the AS1000/E10, whose main feature is a electroluminescent screen with a 2mS screen switching response time, which is approximately 20 times faster than the monochrome liquid-crystal diode display released in May this year, although the new laptop is in other respects identical. Shipments will start in September, for a price of just over $13,000, and Toshiba hopes to sell 2,900 of the machines in the first two years. Since the monochrome Sparc-LT L10’s release two months ago, it has taken orders for 1,000.
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