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From: WANCHO@simtel20.arpa (Frank J. Wancho)
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Subject: Intel 310s and 380s
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 00:32:47 EST
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Dave,

As I understand it, the entire U.S. Army is not required to buy these
machines.  However, we are, if it, or the WYSE-PC or the WANG-PC
happen to met basic requirements, and it's not waiver-proof either,
provided certain criteria are met.

Furthermore, we buy the INTEL-310s with the 80286 to run XENIX, NOT
MS-DOS or IRMX-86.  Many of us hope to upgrade to XENIX V and the
80386 when those options become available.  If we want to run MS-DOS,
we buy the WYSE-PC off the contract.  (There is a rumor that the
WYSE-PC might be substituted with a ZENITH-158...)

The comments in the original article *may* be valid as posted.  But,
they don't apply to our configurations of that product, and neither do
your footnotes.  Sorry.

It should be noted that the Army recently threw in with the Air Force
and Navy for the next major procurement action...

--Frank