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From: ndoduc@framentec.fr (Nhuan Doduc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Tektronix Scientific shutdown rumour
Keywords: tektronix
Message-ID: <1536@ftc.framentec.fr>
Date: 15 Oct 90 08:32:12 GMT
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In <1990Oct14.003906.26373@wolves.uucp> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:

>A net.acquaintance who was working at Tektronix in Washington or Oregon
>reports that they are abandoning the 88K workstation effort!  Is this
>just a rumour or has this been in the news and I missed it or what?

>Am I way off base?

Over there in France, a marketing friend of me boasted last september that
we can wait for a big change from 88k to "his" risc by october. Now we're
only the 15th, so ...
The strangest of all is that when I mentionned this to another marketing
friend (of another 88K vendor), he seems to agree, reluctantly through, to
the "unavoidability" of this move ...

--nh
Nhuan DODUC, 
Framentec-Cognitech, Paris, France, ndoduc@framentec.fr or ndoduc@cognitech.fr,
Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix, France, doduc@afuu.fr