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From: dave@uwvax.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Bring in the clones
Message-ID: <353@uwvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 17:28:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 17:28:56 1984
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> They even mention the word "UNIX"(tm) on television!!!

It's AT&T Bell Laboratories.  AT&T can say UN*X until the cows come home.

>                Do they have System V to run on it?  Or do you run Venix
> or Xenix on it?  Or does this just mean that you can hook the PC as a
> semi-silly terminal on one of their 3B series?

If its AT&T's computer, you can bet it's System V.  Besides, even the
*real* IBM/PC-XT can run UN*X.  I think the IBM version a System V
port.  They were demoing them at Usenix.  It wasn't any worse than some
other products I saw there --  or the slowest either.

-- 
Dave Cohrs @ wisconsin
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