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From: still@usceast.UUCP (Bert Still)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B5/15 3B2/400
Message-ID: <2552@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 00:28:45 GMT
References: <407@paisley.ac.uk> <448@olgb1.oliv.co.uk>
Reply-To: still@usceast.UUCP (Bert Still)
Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
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Keywords: 3b5 has already been discontinued, 3b2/400 supported for cal yr 1988.
Summary: Obsolesence comes oh so quickly these days...

In article <448@olgb1.oliv.co.uk> olapw@olgb1.oliv.co.uk (Tony Walton) writes:
>In article <407@paisley.ac.uk>, swi@cs.paisley.ac.uk (Scott Wilson) writes:
>> 
>> I read in a magazine the other week that the 3b5/15 and the 2/400's were
>> being discontinued. Is there any truth in this claim and if so, what
>
>There is no truth in this rumour. The 3B2/400 is not being discontinued.

	Better check with your AT&T rep. I was told TODAY that the 3b5 is
no longer supported: meaning that the current rev level of System V.3 won't
run on it. We have a 3b5 which will soon migrate to a 3b15. The 3b15 will
be around for awhile. Furthermore, the 3b2/300 (which I have on my desk) is
no longer supported, and will have to be upgraded to at least a /310 to
support Sytstem V.3. By September or so, AT&T is planning to release System
V.4 which my rep was sure did not support the /310 (and according to him,
the /310 will become a non-supported item by Jan 1989). The new 3b2/700
will use the larger box design of the /500 and /600, thereby making the /400
the "baby" of the family. Also, the 3b4000 will be out by the end of this
year, and we should see a SPARC box from AT&T. Hence, we're planning to
upgrade the 3b5 to a 3b15 and the 3b2/300's to 3b2/500's (otherwise, we'll
have to upgrade again around October).

>Even the 3B2/310 is still available, though with a l-o-n-g delivery time - 
>the 400 is effectively the base machine of the 3B range.
>3B5's have effectively been superseded (superceded?) by 3B2/600's now, but
>the 3B15 is alive and well. Support for the 300, 310, 400, 500, 600, 3B5,
>3B15 is also alive and well.
>-- 

	Hardware support yes. Software support reflected by current releases
of UNIX System V.3... well, for the 3b2/400, /500, /600, and 3b15, yes...
otherwise, no. But, I sure don't intend to get rid of my 3b2/300 (until I
can upgrade it to a /500... probably in time for System V.4 :-)

>Tony Walton, OEM/VAR Division, British Olivetti Ltd., Wellington House,

					Bert
					still@cs.scarolina.edu
Systems Manager
Math/Stat Computation Center
University of South Carolina