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From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: COMP.SYS.NCR ??
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.223640.5546@cfctech.cfc.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 22:36:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.014738.6362@netcom.COM>
Organization: Chrysler Financial Corp., Southfield, MI
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In article <1991Jun23.014738.6362@netcom.COM> cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) writes:
>What with the merger happening, significant changes in products, and
>uncertain support policies, what about a new group?  I realize that
>there will be venerable AT&T microcomputers humming for many a year from
>now, and so perhaps this group should survive, but some of the new 
>products on the horizon (from NCR/AT&T) are really exciting - the
>3450 and 35/26/3700's...I don't know much about their 'PCs' yet, except
>that NCR bullied AT&T into the Microchannel architecture.

The rumor mill sayeth that NCR is going to engulf and devour AT&T's computer 
business, so the days of comp.sys.att, AS A NEWSGROUP WHICH REFLECTS THE REAL 
MARKETPLACE, are definitely numbered. Of course, maybe 3B's will become "cult 
classics" on the Net, just like UNIX-PC's did...

>The 3B2 family will live for a piece and an upgrade to a MIPS CPU
>is due shortly.

The 3B2/WeCo family, as a competitive line, is already dead. The fact that no
R4 port will be offered for it is merely a nail in its coffin.

The 3B2/MIPS family is a -different- family, with the questionable "feature" 
of being compatible with the over-priced, under-performing peripherals of the
3B2/WeCo family.

Whoopee.

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