Subtypes of laptop computers include many different types. UMPCs, or Ultramobile PCs. These small screen models are scaled down versions of larger portables and are designed with a miniature keyboard and mouse interface. Laptops containing screen that are typically smaller than 12 inches are considered ultraportables, and are primarily designed for business travelers who need small, light laptops. Other categories include thin and lights which weigh between four to six pounds, mainstream laptops, which weigh five to seven pounds, and desktop replacement computers, which are designed to remain in a fixed location and, as their name implies, are intended to replace traditional desktop computers in the workplace.
Similar devices are also available. The prototype for all laptops and portable computers, the Osborne 1, was intended to run desktop software but did not function well as a portable computer unless it was directly plugged into a power source. There are tablet devices shaped like notebooks that include touch screen interfaces and a magnetized stylus. Some do not include a keyboard, while others have convertibles that include a screen which can be rotated 180 degrees and folded on top of the computer. Personal Digital Assistants, or PDAs, also fall into this category, as well as smart phones, like the recent Apple IPhone.
The lines that separate these types of devices are often blurred. The Apple eMate, for example, had a clamshell form of a laptop, but ran PDA software. The HP Omnibook line also included some devices that were small enough to be classified as handheld computers.
The first laptop model proposed was Alan Kays Dynabook concept, which was developed at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s. The first portable computer to be made commercially available, however, as previously stated, was the Osborne 1, which was releaaed in 1981 and ran on the CP/M operating system. Although it was bulky by the standards of today, it revolutionized the business world, since business travelers were, for the first time, able to take their computers along on trips with them. The first portable computer, the Xerox NoteTaker, had already been developed by this time, but only a limited amount of prototypes were ever built, and although the Osborne was comparatively expensive and the size and weight of a portable sewing machine, it was nevertheless very popular in its day.
QUESTION: Why did we choose to come here when we were already part of God to begin with?
BAWA MUHAIYADDEN: That is a good question. The soul is a part of God and the reason you came here is to understand Him and to understand yourself. You came here to know what God is like and what you are like. You must know what God is, what you are, and what creation is.
This world is a school, a university. You came here to this school to study God’s secret and your own secret. God created this place so you could understand Him and know how mighty He is, and so you could understand yourself and all of creation. You came here to take the test and pass it.
Does a mother give birth to a child and then just keep it in the house? If you were kept home all the time, how could you understand the world and its many wonders?
Your mother and father send you to school. Why? Because they want you to study, to learn, and to understand the world, yourself, and all the wonders. They want you to know what truth is. That is why your parents send you to school, and that is why schools were built. Your parents want you to understand things.
God did the same thing. He sent His children to this school so they could understand more about Him. There is the world of the soul, this world, and the world of the heart, which has within it eighteen thousand universes, paradise, God, and yourself. You have to understand all these.
The world is an example. God is the Causal Creator of everything, the inner heart (qalb) is an effect, and you are the basic principle. From the example of the world, you are the basic principle that understands the causes within yourself and the One who is the cause of everything. You need to understand your Father. That is why you came here.
Your Father sent you here to study. Just as your parents send you to school, God sent you to this world to learn about the eighteen thousand universes, this world , the world of the soul, the world of life, the world of wisdom, the world of divine wisdom (gnanam), the peaceful world of paradise, and the world of perfection, purity, and resplendence. He sent you so you could know your Father. This is just a school.
From: The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh p. 55.
O man, no matter what you have studied or how much you have studied, do not follow the ways of your mind with conceit in your learning. Ask a man of wisdom who is on the path and follow his directions. If you do not meet a man of wisdom, lay your heart open and ask even a tree or a wall. The power of God within your heart called conscience will caution you and guide you. It will say, “Go," or “Don’t go," “Right," or “Wrong." If your heart is open, your conscience will provide useful fruit which will benefit your journey through life.
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