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From: john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul)
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Subject: Re: Wet Dream or ...
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Date: 11 Apr 91 18:41:36 GMT
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In article <13964@adobe.UUCP> lemery@adobe.COM () writes:
}A couple of days ago, a consortium of companies (Microsoft, MIPS,
}DEC, SCO, and others) announced they would be supporting a new
}standard high performance PC/workstation to compete against the
}high end Intel-based products.
}Operating systems would be either OS/3 or Unix based. 
}No other information was available in the article. 
}If you have any information about this new effort, would you
}please share it.

   There is an article in the 8 Apr 91 "Digital Review" on page 1
entitled "Consortium seeks to extinguish Sparc".

John

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