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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Death of various 3B things
Summary: 3B1 Redux (and yet....)
Message-ID: <97@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 16:56:43 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.111353.29426@uhura.neoucom.EDU> <1990Jun29.182049.23255@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1990Jun29.182049.23255@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>
>My favorite use for a 3B1 is to keep one around to point to and
>smile when an AT&T salesman tries to tell me why I should buy
>something else from them (software support, what's that?). 

	As a marketing case history, yes the 3B1/7300 is a sorry tale.
	And yet, the system remains one of the more innovative of its era.
	While Sun and Apollo were offering expensive (and laudable)
	workstations for the techies, here was a windowing UNIX box for
	the "rest of us" (no apologies to Apple!) supporting a development
	system in 1 (one!) MB on a 40 MB drive.