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From: ken@njitcccc.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: AT&T MIPS claim
Message-ID: <186@njitcccc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 08:41:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: njitcccc.186
Posted: Thu Jun  5 08:41:32 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 06:31:18 EDT
References: <58@lmi-angel.UUCP>
Organization: NJ Inst of Tech., Newark NJ
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In article <58@lmi-angel.UUCP>, wsr@lmi-angel.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
> In article <> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
> >There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a few days
> >ago saying that Convergent Tech (maker of the UNIX/PC) is basically
> >in deep s**t over this product as AT&T has cut orders to almost nil.
> >I think they said a total of 10,000 were sold, around 7,000 of those
> >internally to AT&T.
> Another closed architecture machine bites the dust. Perhaps someday
> (after they fire some useless three piece suit types) they will sell
> the machine with schematics, a bus spec, and a method to link in your
> own device drivers.
Strange, a few Unix(R) friends of mine said that IBM was going
to bring out exactly what AT&T did.  But instead, IBM brought
out the exact opposite.

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