Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 ggr 10/28/83; site pyuxbb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!allegra!alice!rabbit!pyuxbb!ggr From: ggr@pyuxbb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.lan Subject: Sorry, you end-users Message-ID: <231@pyuxbb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Nov-83 18:10:36 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxbb.231 Posted: Fri Nov 4 18:10:36 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Nov-83 21:15:42 EST Reply-To: prnews@whuxg.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway Lines: 13 /***** whuxh:pr.presstp / mhwpd!prnews / 10:23 am Nov 2, 1983*/ INDUSTRY GIANTS PREVIEW OWN LOCAL-AREA NETWORKS, Computerworld, 10/31, p.1. AT&T Western Electric will begin marketing a local area network developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories next January, but not to end users, AT&T's Charles Brown said last week in Geneva. Instead, AT&T-WE will sell the network to telephone operating companies, which will then market it to end users. The LAN reportedly will be called "3Bnet." /* ---------- */