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Re: 960 XA/MX Questions

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From: Graeme Gill
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 05:36
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In article <MKAHN.93Jan7074846@hopi.sedona.intel.com>, mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn) writes:
> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>  Nntp-Posting-Host: auspex.auspex.com
> ]
> ] >As of this time, we have no plans to sell the XA/MX products
> ] >for commercial uses.
> ] Why not?  (Technical, or Marketoon(TM), reasons?)
> 
> Marketoon(tm) reasons to be exact. There is very little demand
> for products with the capabilities of the MX/XA outside of the
> military. 

	From this I gather that graphics (ie. Xterminals) and multi-media
do not amount to much demand. I guess this just means that the next generation
product won't be using 960s in them ...

	Graeme Gill
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Subject: Re: 960 XA/MX Questions
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:36:15 GMT
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