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Re: AT&T MIPS claim

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From: Wolfgang Rupprecht
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1986 03:48
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In article <> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a few days
>ago saying that Convergent Tech (maker of the UNIX/PC) is basically
>in deep s**t over this product as AT&T has cut orders to almost nil.
>I think they said a total of 10,000 were sold, around 7,000 of those
>internally to AT&T.

Another closed architecture machine bites the dust. Perhaps someday
(after they fire some useless three piece suit types) they will sell
the machine with schematics, a bus spec, and a method to link in your
own device drivers.







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Wolfgang Rupprecht	{harvard|decvax!cca|mit-eddie}!lmi-angel!wsr
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From: wsr@lmi-angel.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
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Subject: Re: AT&T MIPS claim
Message-ID: <58@lmi-angel.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 23:48:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  3 23:48:52 1986
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Organization: LISP Machine, Inc (Cambridge Engineering HQ)
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