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In article <1992Oct15.065208.6824@timesink.chi.il.us> harry@timesink.chi.il.us (Harold Platypus) writes:
>In article <AMPU25444AC7D6@MPA15AB> MPA15AB!COMPSYSU@TRENGA.tredydev.unisys.com writes:
>>> It's a very interesting and powerful architecture.  Too bad that it
>>> didn't capture a larger market share.
>>
>>I'm not sure I like the use of the past tense "didn't" here!  ;-)  I like to
>>think that more and more people will discover the advantages of the A Series.
>>
>>  = Randy Gellens            randy%mpa15ab@trenga.tredydev.unisys.com =

I also believe that the A-Series architecture was a technology leader.  There were many technologies that Unisys/Burroughs did on it's mainframes that others think they invented.

>
>Burroughs Large Systems? Let's get real...
>Having spent eight years working on Burroughs Large Systems (B6700, B6800,
>B6900, A-series) doing applications then systems support work, I bailed
>out of the shrinking Burroughs job market and into Open Systems. This was
>five years ago and man I'm not sorry... There have been at least a dozen
>major Burroughs/Sperry customer defections in the Chicago area alone in
>the last 5 years with more expected. Prognosis: terminally ill cash cow.

I am very real.  I have worked with Unisys systems for 14 years.
It may be true that some Unisys customer's have switched to OPEN SYSTEMS, but ALL major computer vendor's have seen this.  If you sell a A-series customer an   OPEN System that increases cash flow.   

>
>Open Systems? Don't bet on it... I don't believe Unisys/Convergent can
>make a decent UNIX box to save their souls. Unisys also has a terrible
>reputation for bad customer support on the boxes they OEM'ed from dead
>and dying manufacturers like Arete/Arix and Sequent.

Sequent is not close to being dead.  They make the finest fully symetrical multi-cpu UNIX system around.  Unisys customer support was not bad on OEM boxes.

>
>PCs you say? Unisys is at least six months behind and two to three times
>more expensive on comparable machines from just about anyone; even from
>Mitsubushi which makes Unisys PCs. What happened to CTOS/BTOS? Can anyone
>give me one reason to become or to stay a Unisys customer! I wish them
>luck, but I honestly don't see Unisys lasting to the end of the decade.

Unisys makes it's own PC's.  They were made in New Jersey, now they are made in California.

>
>But hey, I been hearing great things about C compilers for the A-series...


>- Harry

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