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From: martelli@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
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Subject: Re: ACE (Was Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times?)
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Date: 5 May 91 01:11:26 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
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:The ACE committee at present consists of Compaq, DEC, and MIPS on the hardware
:side, MicroSoft and SCO on the software side.  MIPS wants to sell chips.  All

I'm pretty sure Olivetti is also in it (they didn't use to be MIPS customers,
and indeed went so far as to announce an Intel860 box, but that was, I believe,
canceled, and they are now going MIPS); and I *think* Sony was also at the
launch, despite the big-endianness and the System V Rel. 4 which, I think, runs
on their current MIPS portable WS (desktop NeWS run pure BSD43, or they used
to until not long ago, at least).