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From: ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
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Date: 1 Nov 90 04:34:45 GMT
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In <16031@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:

>In article <42487@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>
>The 88K list I use in public talks includes the following (please correct
>me or update if I'm wrong; I prefer not to show incorrect info about
>competitors):
>1)Shipping:Motorola,DG, Sanyo/ICON, Tadpole Technology, Dolphin, Omron, Harris,
>           BBN, Encore (Alpha or Beta), Avalon, Force.
>2) Dropped out: Tektronix, Stratus, Everex/Opus (maybe), NCR
>3) Not yet: Unisys

[to repeat]
>2) Dropped out: Tektronix, Stratus, Everex/Opus (maybe), NCR
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>				     |
>I don't think this is anywhere near official.  However, Sun, LSI Logic
>and Opus have been plowing a lot of effort into the SPARCkit clones,
>and the last Opus person I talked to (circa 5 weeks ago) mentioned
>that I "probably wouldn't want to buy and 88k Personal Mainframe" (88k
>plugin card for ISA bus machines).  They would really like you to buy
>SPARC stuff...

	This week, Opus told me that they have NO PLANS TO ABANDON the
88k.  They ARE *pushing* the spark, but they do have active engineering
programs for the 88k.  They, in fact, have just released the
re-engineered board that allows for 4MB SIMMs.  We should finally be
getting our beta-test board upgraded to a real board :-)  Additionally,
an updated X-Windows System for the PM400 was recently released.

	What did NOT help was that Everex decided to no longer make the
2015 ethernet controller that Opus has written into the kernal.  I guess
I need to get the kernal customizing kit now for sure! :-(

Disclaimer: You think Duke or Opus have any official relationship to
            what I type?  Get your head examined!  No WAY!
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