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From: bshafer@udenva.cair.du.edu (Bob Shafer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Anybody ever heard of DUAL
Keywords: There really is a Dual
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Date: 9 Jun 89 21:50:18 GMT
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I thank everyone who has replied to my original request for information.
Including a person who at one time worked at Dual and the keeper of
a mailing list for users of old Dual equipment.

The consensus appears to be that the company has gone out of business.

However, I just received sales literature from someone in Denver that
is selling stuff for Dual Systems Corporation.  It includes a phone number
if anyone is interested in verifying it's existence or not (we will either
go with a MIPS (a real nice special for the educational market this month)
or an 80386 implementation.  The phone number is (415)785-8890.

The sales literature says they are selling a box with a 68030 on a VME bus.
They also are selling their VME controllers separately.

I am not sure if this is the same company that everyone else thought was
defunct, but there does appear to be a company named Dual that sells
Unix boxes now.

Bob Shafer

Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
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