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From: jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.unix.aix,comp.misc
Subject: IBM screws RT owners?
Message-ID: <1133@gort.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 90 08:53:46 GMT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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   There is no indication that IBM has any intention of
upgrading AIX on the RT to anything approaching the features
of AIX 3.1 on the new Series 6000 machines. There _is_ a lot 
of hinting that the RT is destined for history's trashcan.
One excerpt from the Official Announcement:

   "an RT Migration Assistance Program is available to help 
    protect current RT system investments. For RT Systems 
    purchased between Jan. 1, 1989 and June 30, 1990, IBM,
    for a limited time, is offering migration assistance trade-in
    credit on a one-for-one basis to customers who want to
    migrate from the RT system to a RISC System/6000 POWERStation
    or POWERServer."

  I'd like to talk to the brain-dead IBM marketeer that thought
up this insult. Those customers who supported IBM RTs during the
1985-1988 years are shut-out completely. Of course, they don't mention
what kind of trade-in credit these recent purchasers get.....

   Any IBM employee care to comment? 

     ---j

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