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Re: AT&T MIPS claim

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From: Kenneth Ng
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1986 12:41
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In article <58@lmi-angel.UUCP>, wsr@lmi-angel.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
> 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.
Strange, a few Unix(R) friends of mine said that IBM was going
to bring out exactly what AT&T did.  But instead, IBM brought
out the exact opposite.

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Subject: Re: AT&T MIPS claim
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