Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!nolan From: nolan@helios.unl.edu (Michael Nolan) Subject: Re: NCR's 4000 series to replace towers??? Message-ID: Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Reply-To: nolan@helios.unl.edu Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln References: <5900@holston.UUCP> Date: 5 Apr 91 06:51:26 GMT Lines: 35 barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes: >I have heard that people who used to order towers are now >ordering the 4000 series instead, is this true? First of all, it's the 3000 series, not the 4000 series. >This is understandable since the 4000 boasts high performance >enhancements. Only at the higher end (3400 and above). At the low end the 3000's are just NCR's PC's with a slightly faster transfer rate (maybe) and unix. >Does this mean that the tower is destined for the >unsupported list??? Well, eventually EVERYTHING goes in the bit bucket. NCR's official policy (as told to those in attendance at the NCR Unix User Group meeting last fall) was that Tower development and production continues, and that the 'market will decide'. Yeah, right! Perhaps some additional word on this will come out at NUCON in San Antonio in 4 weeks, but I expect that the Tower 750 will be the last new Tower. (Assuming that the 750 is ever released as anything other than an upgrade kit.) NCR has said that SVR4 will probably NOT be ported to the Tower, only to the 3000. (This may change if AT&T gets control of NCR.) One thing NCR has been very good at in the past is continuing support for older systems long past their sales lifetime. (Tower XP and mini-Tower buyers may flame me for that statement, though.) I'm not getting rid of my 1 1/2 year old Tower/450 right away, although I might get a 3400 just to have something 'interesting' to play around with. Michael Nolan nolan@helios.unl.edu