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From: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
Message-ID: <42376@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 90 06:32:42 GMT
References: <1536@ftc.framentec.fr> <1990Oct19.120218.9450@canterbury.ac.nz> <15497@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <15638@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Oct23.162306.5579@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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In article <1990Oct23.162306.5579@dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
>In article <15638@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried
>iii) writes:
>> 
>> I'll have to agree that noone (especially me) can count out any of
>the
>> architectures now running around.  However, with Tek gone and DG
>> going, I don't think that anyone can deny the fact that the 88k is in
>> a little trouble, as far as being one of the top 2 or 3 players in
>> the RISC market.
>
>I beg your pardon?  Data General is most certainly *not* withdrawing
>the 88K-based AViiON line from the market!

When the previous poster said Data General was going....
perhaps what he meant was that Data General was going ...*nowhere* :-)


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