avi@pegasus.UUCP (11/08/83)
I have been reading some of the recent "rumors" about the "AT&T micros" with
great amusement. What a bunch of misinformation there is out there. I am
working with several of these micros BUT I don't believe that we are allowed
to release such information in a public forum. Obviously, someone has been
leaking information to people outside the AT&T companies.
Now that AT&T Information Systems (in whose Laboratories I work) and AT&T
Western Electric and even AT&T Bell Laboratories are in the public
marketplace, we are no different than IBM. We need to maintain our
proprietary information so that we can sell our products in a competitive
manner. I don't want to have the rug pulled out from under the products I am
working on because some people give out information illegally. I would urge
all people in the AT&T system to avoid the temptation to reply to these
provocative questions in net.rumor. All discussion should be limited to the
att.all newsgroups created by Mark Horton -- or even narrower bandwidth
groups like btl, abi .... The Unix(TM) operating system software is not
the only thing that can't be shared with unauthorized people.
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-=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241
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