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From: lindwall@mbongo.ucsd.edu (John Lindwall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: UnixWorld tidbit
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Date: 26 Feb 91 23:22:16 GMT
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Spotted this in the Feb 91 UnixWorld, "Industry News" section:

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

"Commodore promises to make its annual new product announcement at UniForum for
the Amiga workstation running AT&T System V Release 4.  Product Managager Jesse
Bornfreund, recently brought on board from Rabbit Software, admits, "We figured
it was time to put up or shut up".  The machines were in beta release last 
summer. One site was Virginia Polytechnic, where computer science students were
allowed to run roughshod over it.  Westinghouse was another site.

Anxious developers who wanted to upgrade from Amiga's DOS applications paid
$5000 for machines.  Bornfreund reports "pilot sales" -- placement in
companies for testing with potential for future volume sales - to Martin
Marietta, NASA, and Rockwell.  The machine will cost between $5000 and
$10,000, says BornFreund.  The 68030-based workstation (with a 68040-based
version to come) will run SVR4 and the Motif graphical user
interface."

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"68040 version to come", OK we've assumed that...  "Motif" !?!?!  Is this
a mistake?  I assume so!
-- 
John Lindwall			lindwall@cs.ucsd.edu
"Oh look at me! I'm all flooby! I'll be a son of a gun!" -- Flaming Carrot


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