Comments on: The MoFo Difference

By: Anne Haight

Anne Haight — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:36:12 +0000

From what I recall about dealing with their records, Tadpole Cycle was a subsidiary of Tadpole, a parent company based in the UK. I believe Tadpole Cycle shortened their name to just “Tadpole” sometime in 2001.

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:08:44 +0000

Come to think of it, maybe you pasted the wrong link? Tadpole is not “Tadpole Cycle”, even technically, an they’re based in Cupertino, CA, not the UK.

Ah, here we go. Good old google. Evidently Tadpole merged with Cycle, and they look like a UK company because there was a UK press release. Or maybe they were a UK company before the merger? I always recall thinking they were US, but maybe not.

Yay, irrelevant details!

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:02:24 +0000

Wow. I didn’t know Tadpole was still around.

Tadpole, now as then, makes SPARC laptops. SPARC being Sun’s favoured CPU family for the past decade and a half or more.

I’ve never understood why anyone would buy a laptop version, though, given that Sun’s real advantage over the competition is in the server and redundancy (in the good sense!) market.

Thus, my amazement that Tadpole is still around. Evidently someone must have a use for them.