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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
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Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
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Date: 1 Nov 90 19:37:26 GMT
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In article <1990Nov1.043445.28860@wolves.uucp> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:

>[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.

OK, thanx.  Sorry for the error, I'll fix the charts.
(Now that I think of it, the specific comment was attributed to
Everex, but I'l try to recheck.)
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