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From: lfd@cbnewsm.att.com (leland.f.derbenwick)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Is the 3b2 dead?
Summary: rumors, rumors, rumors, ...
Keywords: AT&T - the wrong choice?
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.221538.1230@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 22:15:38 GMT
References: <3532@wb3ffv.ampr.org>
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3532@wb3ffv.ampr.org>, smarc@wb3ffv.ampr.org (Marc Siegel) writes:
> 
> 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.

I work for a company that has a LARGE investment in 3b2 hardware and
software!   :-)  :-)

There were some internal rumors at one point that the 3b2 line was
going to go away, but they were all denied once someone in 3b2-land
heard them.  It appears that the _old_ 3b2 computers (even those
slightly newer than the already-discontinued 3b2/300 "pizza box")
will be going away, but that the line will be extended with new ones.

Of course, my _particular_ project uses mostly VAX 8650's and
PDP 11/70's (both _discontinued_ machines from DEC), so I'm not an
expert on the 3b line.  (Hey, this project started out on IBM
mainframes, and still uses them...)  But at least one other project
in my lab runs _only_ on 3b2's and they don't appear to be worried
about them going away.

 -- Speaking strictly for myself,
 --   Lee Derbenwick, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Warren, NJ
 --   lfd@cbnewsm.ATT.COM  or  <wherever>!att!cbnewsm!lfd