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From: rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: crontab Daemon-from-Hell
Message-ID: <1546@sialis.mn.org>
Date: 9 Jun 89 03:15:12 GMT
References: <1538@sialis.mn.org> <723@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin)
Organization: Dr. Ho Laboratory and Day Care Center
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>> Don't blame AT&T for everything... remember that Convergent had a
>> (Big) hand in the hardware, software and packaging of the 3b1/7300...
>> 
>Scratch that thought, please.
>The Safari 4 was designed and packaged under very close direction from AT&T.
>No other Convergent product has the software unbundling of the PC7300.

As it was described to me, by some long ago Safari 4 involvee, the
Safari 4 was designed by Convergent, and purchased by AT&T following
the general completion of the product.

The OS (original) was a port of a Convergent port (I forget the actual
one) which of course originated from original AT&T code.

Since that time, AT&T marketed the machine and continued to modify the
original Convergent port of a Convergent port of AT&T code.  :-)

Even from Convergent, you cannot claim that Convergent produced all
the successes of the machine, while AT&T produced all of the failures.

My point, originally, was not that Convergent should be blamed for
anything, but that any failures or lacks of the machine are not
necessarily solely AT&T's "fault".  (Of course, some of those are
purely expectation, since the machine was perhaps not intended to do
what you want to do with it).

AT&T wasn't the lone player in this machine.

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