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From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM (Randy_Davis)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Rumors...
Summary: AT&T Minicomputers? and Motorola 68000
Keywords: 7300 3b1 UNIXpc
Message-ID: <410@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 88 18:23:49 GMT
References: <373@uncle.UUCP>
Reply-To: rjd@occrsh.UUCP (Randy_Davis)
Organization: AT&T Network & Data Systems, OKC
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In article <373@uncle.UUCP> jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes:
:Where do journalists get this stuff?
:
:[What follows is reproduced without permission from "Computer Design"]
:
:In the October 15 issue, page 9, the News Briefs section.
:--------------------------------------
:Sparc wins and loses
:[first paragraph omitted]
[all but last sentance omitted - rjd]
:tionship with Motorola. AT&T uses
:Motorola's 68000 family of process-
:sors in its 3B line of minicomputers.
:[rest omitted]
:--------------------------------------
:
:That last sentance is interesting. Does that mean I really have a minicomputer?
:I think they got the tense of the "uses" wrong. Oh no, better call Convergent
:and tell them to make more UNIXpcs :)

  The only AT&T "minicomputers" I know of are the 3B family.  As John says,
the PCs are considered "microcomputers" (do the PCs use 68000 chips?).  The
3B family includes the 3B2, 3B5, 3B15, 3B4000, 3B20 Simplex, and 3B20 Duplex.
I know for sure that all the 3B2, 3B15, and 3B4000 computers use the AT&T -
designed and manufactured full 32-bit microprocessor.

Randy