<s>
Tadpole	B-Architecture
Computer	I-Architecture
was	O
a	O
manufacturer	O
of	O
rugged	O
,	O
military	O
specification	O
,	O
UNIX	B-Device
workstations	I-Device
,	O
thin	B-Device
client	I-Device
laptops	O
and	O
lightweight	O
servers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1998	O
,	O
Tadpole	O
acquired	O
RDI	O
Computer	O
Corporation	O
of	O
Carlsbad	O
,	O
California	O
,	O
who	O
produced	O
the	O
competing	O
Britelite	B-Device
and	I-Device
Powerlite	I-Device
portable	O
SPARC-based	O
systems	O
,	O
for	O
$6	O
million	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
anonymous	O
US	O
intelligence	O
officer	O
had	O
stated	O
to	O
Reuters	O
in	O
2013	O
that	O
a	O
decade	O
earlier	O
the	O
US	O
secretly	O
created	O
a	O
company	O
reselling	O
laptops	O
from	O
Tadpole	B-Architecture
Computer	I-Architecture
to	O
Asian	O
governments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tadpole	O
laptops	O
used	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
architectures	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
SPARC	B-Architecture
,	O
Alpha	B-Device
,	O
PowerPC	B-Architecture
and	O
x86	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
all	O
ran	O
the	O
SunOS	B-Operating_System
or	O
Solaris	B-Application
operating	I-Application
systems	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
Alpha-based	O
laptop	O
,	O
the	O
ALPHAbook	O
1	O
,	O
was	O
announced	O
on	O
4	O
December	O
1995	O
and	O
became	O
available	O
in	O
1996	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
used	O
an	O
Alpha	B-Device
21066A	O
microprocessor	O
specified	O
for	O
a	O
maximum	O
clock	O
frequency	O
of	O
233MHz	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
laptop	O
used	O
the	O
OpenVMS	B-Operating_System
operating	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
PowerPC-based	O
laptop	O
was	O
also	O
produced	O
-	O
the	O
IBM	O
RISC	O
System/6000	O
N40	O
Notebook	O
Workstation	B-Device
,	O
powered	O
by	O
a	O
50MHz	O
PowerPC	B-General_Concept
601	I-General_Concept
and	O
with	O
between	O
16	O
and	O
64MB	O
RAM	O
-	O
and	O
designed	O
to	O
run	O
IBM	B-Application
AIX	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tadpole	O
also	O
produced	O
a	O
range	O
of	O
x86-based	O
notebook	O
computers	O
,	O
including	O
the	O
Tadpole	O
P1000	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
TALIN	O
laptops	O
with	O
SUSE	O
Linux	O
,	O
or	O
optionally	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
.	O
</s>
