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From: gmark@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Stewart)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Ex-unix support person speaks
Summary: unix-pc.general
Message-ID: <4599@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 May 88 16:58:35 GMT
References: <963@tellab5.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <963@tellab5.UUCP>, dpb@tellab5.UUCP (Darryl Baker) writes:
> Well I've seen a lot of speculation in this news group about what
> version of AT&T Unix is the OS on the Unix-pc. Well I left AT&T Unix
> System support after the introduction of the 7300, and it wasn't really
> based on any of the AT&T releases. Yes some of the utilities (init,
> login, getty) were System V but others such as ls were strickly
> Berekley. It was the first machine to have shared libraries and the
> driving force behind their development at Summit.  The demand paging

Well, I've just heard that AT&T announced a VoicePower board for their
WGS 386 computer.  If I am to assume that this machine is a replacement
for the 3B1, references to the sadness with which I note that Motorola
has been abandoned in favor of Intel aside, how does the new machine 
compare?  I guess it's an 80386.  Has a lot of the software been ported?
How does the performance compare?  I guess a full-blown setup costs
nearly $10K (3B1 originally got near $8K with the works), but they're 
pushing the 630 as a montitor.  Does this mean there will be no
UNIX-PC 3.6 OS? Got any information?  Good/bad news?



					G. Mark Stewart
					ATT-BTL Naperville, ix1g266
					ixlpq!gms 979-0914