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From: pete@oakhill.UUCP (Peter Percosan)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.unix
Subject: Re: NCR Tower & UNIX versions
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 13:23:07 EDT
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First of all Rob, Most of the people working on the 93/9400
project were not at NCR E&M San Diego - rather they were at the now
defunct NCR-TP Systems Engineering group. I think that the guy that
said that the 93/9400 project was droped to remove the competition
on the TOWER was close to correct, the 9300/9400 performance was not
great enough (especially with respect to cost) to have it be the bigger
brother of the TOWER in the NCR UNIX family. In other words - it was going
to be in roughly the same performace market at a greater price.

By the way, CELERITY COMPUTING has had a succesful port of UNIX 4.2bsd
for many months working on the NCR 32 (chip set in question). It is 
interesting to hear that another company is finding a use for that chip set.


Peter Percosan

FORMERLY NCR-TP Buisness UNIX Department

Currently Motorola Advanced Technology Center, Austin Tx

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