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From: wright@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 680x0 are NOT obsolete (was Re: TT upgrades)
Message-ID: <1540010@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:50:31 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.213305.26568@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: HP Circuit Technology R&D
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> 2.  Motorola has only two REAL 680x0 customers left: Apple and Motorola.  NeXT
>     might pick up some slack, but not more than 2-3%...
> 6.  Motorola has several REAL customers for 88xxx: Data General, Tektronix,
>     Sequent, Opus, and, of course, Motorola.

Call me biased, but I consider Hewlett Packard to be more *REAL* than any
of Data General, Tektronix, Sequent, Opus, or Motorola.  Since you're
apparently not aware, HP does a pretty good business in Motorola 68k
workstations, partially through the aquisition of Apollo, and partially
through pre-existing HP products.

But of course, I'm not an official spokesman, and am just speaking of
my own opinions.  I actually don't our official position on REALity.


--Jeff Wright                           HP Circuit Technology R&D
  wright@hpctgrd.hp.com                   (HPtelnet/415) 857-5351