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From: nts0699@dsac.dla.mil (Gene McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Is the 3b2 dead?
Summary: DOD 3B2 status
Keywords: AT&T - the wrong choice?
Message-ID: <1903@dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 5 Jun 90 16:02:33 GMT
References: <3532@wb3ffv.ampr.org>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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From article <3532@wb3ffv.ampr.org>, by smarc@wb3ffv.ampr.org (Marc Siegel):
> 
> I wonder how many other people out there work for companies that
> have LARGE investments in 3b2 hardware and software. We have several
> 3b2's that may not be supported very much longer. While nobody at
> AT&T will actually confirm this, it seems that the 3b2 is a dead
> product line.

The US Department of Defense has (or will have soon) a _massive_
investment in 3b2 600Gs from the AFCAC251 contract. At this point we
have no indications that they are about to become unsupported. In
fact, we have contractural support agreements thru AFCAC251 that they
will be fully supported for 5 years. All indications from the AT&T
engineers with whom we have contact also seems to indicate that at
least this beast is alive & well.

Gene


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