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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Sun & AT&T (was: Re: CUBIX box)
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 13:28:43 EST
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In article <987@kodak.UUCP> lance@kodak.UUCP (dan lance) writes:
>I don't know how long this will take to achieve, nor where it will
>leave 3B series users (or Sun-2 and Sun-3 users, for that matter),
>but I don't think that software support for either the 3Bs or the
>Sun-3s will dry up in the near future.

Or for the Sun-2's.

Some time after the Sun-2's came out, Sun dropped support for the
Sun-1's we had ("Oh, those were just prototypes."), and there's still
a sentiment in some quarters here that Suns are only worthy of use as
boat anchors.

Sun won't make that mistake again.  They don't seem to make many.
--
Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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