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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Risc System/6000
Message-ID: <2958@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 22:20:48 GMT
References: <10307@hoptoad.uucp> <4115@ibmpa.UUCP> <5098@brazos.Rice.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >> > IBM announced industry-leading graphical user interfaces . . .
 >> > available as separate licensed programs.  Customers can choose the
 >> > interface most applicable to their environments.
 >> 
 >> At extra cost
 >Yep, since they allow you to choose Ethernet or Token-Ring adapters, 
 >these are optional items.  In addition, you can configure the machine
 >as an asynch timesharing machine, which a host of asynch adapters.  So
 >I don't think it's unreasonable to do it this way.

Uhh, while it may be legitimate to have a GUI be an add-on product for a
machine that can be sold as an asynch timesharing machine, I fail to see
what the fact that network interfaces are optional has to do with the
fact that the GUI is optional; as I'm *sure* IBM and everybody in the
audience is aware, you don't need a network interface to run X11....