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From: mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: purchasing the HP/Apollo 9000 series 400 workstations
Message-ID: <1781@tuvie>
Date: 30 Aug 90 12:14:54 GMT
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I have a question concerning the network adapters for the HP/Apollo
9000 Series 40: at the introduction of the new series, I got the 
impression that you would get an ethernet controller by default, but
could add an Apollo Token Ring controller - _without_ forfeiting the  
ethernet controller. This is what I gathered from the first price list also.
(The options for the ATR (AL #3 here in Austria) said "adds" not 
"converts", as some other options did!)

Now we ordered one and the order says _or_ which sound like _XOR_. 
Has anybody received clarification from the people who _really_ know 
what this means (_ior_ vs. _xor_).  Was the _ior_ just a machination 
to make the HP 9000 Series 400 better to Apollo customers, or is it for real? 

Any comments are welcome.....

				bye,
					mike
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