🚀 go-pugleaf

   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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