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From: dwight@timeinc.UUCP (Dwight Ernest)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Problems with the 7300
Message-ID: <180@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-May-85 19:53:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 19:53:50 1985
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Reply-To: dwight@timeinc.UUCP (Dwight Ernest)
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BTW, there is an interesting article about the history of the
development of the Unix PC (a.k.a. 7300) in the May issue of
_Popular_Computing_. As many of us already knew, the article
explains that the Unix PC was not developed in-house, but was
rather specified in-house, in a small team effort, and then
"farmed out" to an outside systems house (Coherent, I think).
The article says that the biggest mistake made was the choice of
the 68010 instead of the 32100 chip set, and that this mistake
was made mostly due to proprietary marketing considerations
which no longer existed when the machine was finally completed.

Comments?
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