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Subject: The Phone Company Strikes back
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Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 06:42:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 10 06:42:00 1984
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From:  Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@Mit-Mc.ARPA>

I feel a bit like Lincoln Steffans must have felt when he said
"I have been over into the future, and it works!"  That is: I've
spent the weekend looking over the new AT&T 3B2/300 desktop
mini, and I am blooming impressed.
	They have one-megabyte boards using 256 K chips (theirs)
for $2400 quantity one now.  Lord knows what quantity 1000 next
year will cost.
	The WE 32000 is a heck of achip, and they had a full
Unix system with about 30 jobs going at once, including their
new WINDOWS software that runs buncha jobs on the same screen
including debugger/job/source in different windows.
	I was impressd.  Is there someone who knows a lot I
don't who hasn't been?  At $9950 for a half-meg memory 10K disk
(+ floppy) plus one rs-232 and one centronics, it looks like a
lotta bang for the buck...