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From: jrb@petro.UUCP (Jon Boede)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: XENIX 3.2 for Tandy 6000
Message-ID: <312@petro.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 12:01:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: petro.312
Posted: Wed Jul 29 12:01:39 1987
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Organization: G.M. Andreen & Associates, Inc. San Antonio, Texas
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Keywords: upgrades
Summary: Tandy clammy on continued support for 6000 You can help!!

XENIX 3.2 for the Tandy 6000 is reported due out in mid fall.  However, Tandy
is not sure that there will be a demand for the 3.2 development system and may
not, in fact, bring it out.

The 3.2 "core" system is supposed to fix a number of bugs, including the UART
card lockups which are so annoying.  Some of the other nice things are an
xmail package; adj_clock which lets you fudge the time-of-day-clock if your
hardware isn't real accurate; autoboot to bring the system back up from all,
some or no types of crashes; cfg to allow changing buffers, files, locks,
Maxmem, etc. without re-linking; graphics for the console and a console screen
saver.  The 3.2 development system cc compiler is also supposed to support
FLEXNAMES which will go along way to end the "my compiler truncates after only
seven characters" variable name redundancy blues.

I have heard rumors that the hardware upgrade that will be made available is
supposed to have a 8Mhz Z80, 12+Mhz 68000, an MMU and support for up to 7M
of main memory (our swapper thanks them).  This will make the 6000 a pretty
Dandy Tandy.

But!  Tandy is under the impression that there won't be a demand for all of
this.  Rather than pursue the 6000's path with a 68020 box they'd rather see
the 6000 die and everybody buy 3000's (80286 boxes).

You can help!  Drop a line to Tandy's CEO, John Roach or their 6000 buyer,
Kent Roberts (addresses below).  Tell them that you LIKE your 6000, thank you
very much.  But best of all, vigorously encourage your local R/S manager to
bring such thoughts with him when he goes to Dallas this weekend.  Kent Roberts
just resigned, and they'll be replacing him before the conference this weekend,
making this the PERFECT time to sound off.

The addresses are:

		Kent Roberts
		6000 Computer Buyer
		1500 One Tandy Center
		Ft. Worth, Texas 76102
or the top dog:
		John Roach
		CEO, Tandy Corporation
		1900 One Tandy Center
		Ft. Worth, Texas 76102

Thanks!
Jon
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