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From: kai@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Which 80386 system to buy?
Message-ID: <5501@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 12:41:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpa.5501
Posted: Wed Sep 16 12:41:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 01:53:22 EDT
References: <133@ncrcpx.UUCP> <256@etn-rad.UUCP> <209@trwrc.UUCP> <135@splut.UUCP> <943@edge.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Keywords: 80386 systems
Summary: sorry wrong!

In article <943@edge.UUCP>, doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
> > Considering the list of things that won't work quite right on a 6300, I hope
> > AT&T (Olivetti?) did a better job of engineering this time around.
> 
> Just being picky here:
>   AT&T sells 'em.
>   Olivetti builds 'em.
>   Corona Data Systems designed it.
> -- 
> Doug Pardee, Edge Computer; ihnp4!oliveb!edge!doug, seismo!ism780c!edge!doug

Just being a little more picky here:
	AT&T owns 25% of Olivetti (50% is owned by Italian government, so
		its a controlling share of the publicly held stock)
	An ex-Olivetti executive runs the Computer Systems Division of AT&T
	And Corona Data Systems had NOTHING to do with the 6300 (M24)
		it was designed by Olivetti ATC in Cupertino CA!
	The Olivetti M18 (never sold by AT&T) was Designed by Corona
		- I have one of each!
	And just for the record the 6300+ Motherboard was designed by AT&T
		Information Systems, Manufactured (but never sold) by Olivetti

	To the original poster: what doesn't run? the only things I've found
		that don't run are packages that do direct screen writes and
		run only on MDA! There were incompatability problems with 1.0
		BIOS, but with 1.21 or above, I've yet to see a program that
		will run on an IBM XT & AT, and not a 6300! I've seen plenty
		of packages that will NOT run on an IBM AT, Tandy, Zenith!
		
	The 6300 is as compatable a clone as any in its "stock" form (I do
		have a DEB which does have compatability problems with some
		irrelivent packages, but "as delivered" is the issue). Treated
		as an XT compatable (except for 8086 (same as original deskpro))
		the 6300 does everything an XT compatable is supposed too!



Ken A. Irwin
AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville
IHP 1A332
(312) 416-4485
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