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From: bdw@chinet.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: IBM RT: first impressions
Message-ID: <320@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 18:49:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 18:49:15 1986
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In article <6382@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> [...]
>Don't forget Sun and Apollo, who are much more price-competitive and
>function-competitive than DEC.  Beating DEC prices and performance has
>never been terribly hard, so comparing the RT against DEC hardware is
>a joke.

One problem: Sun and Apollo may be more price-competitive and function-
competitive, but they don't have nearly the name recognition. I, personally,
had never heard of Sun _or_ Apollo computers until I discovered UNIX. However,
DEC was a familiar name to me from the beginning.
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