darren@bacchus (Darren Friedlein) (03/02/88)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I was just talking with Mark Dill
(AT&T public relations) and he informed me that the UNIXpc has been
discontinued, that no more will be made or sold, and that AT&T is putting
its UN*X weight behid their new 386 machine. He said that AT&T will
continue to support the UNIXpc (service contracts, expansion boards, etc.)
but I don't think we'll see many more software updates from them.
BTW: If their are any UNIXpc users out there in or near the Research
Triangle Park, please send me mail.
-Darren
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"I broke a mirror in hy house - I'm supposed to get seven years bad luck but
my lawyer thinks he can get me five." -Steven Wrightisaac@gethen.UUCP (Isaac Rabinowitz) (03/07/88)
In article <246@bacchus>, darren@bacchus (Darren Friedlein) writes: > > I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I was just talking with Mark Dill > (AT&T public relations) and he informed me that the UNIXpc has been > discontinued, that no more will be made or sold, and that AT&T is putting > its UN*X weight behid their new 386 machine. He said that AT&T will > continue to support the UNIXpc (service contracts, expansion boards, etc.) > but I don't think we'll see many more software updates from them. This might be an appropriate time to revive the following topic. The Unix PC is actually manufactured by Convergent Technologies in San Jose. The contract between CT and ATT forbids CT selling machines to anybody except ATT. About 1 1/2 years ago I was a CT employee. It was clear even then that the product was dead and that ATT was continuing to buy them only out of bureaucratic inertia. Paul Ely used to tell us that the only reason the machine didn't move was ATT's failure to market it properly; he hoped to obtain the right to sell the machine to other OEMs and/or under CT's label. Don't know where this went, as I (and 1/4 of my co-workers) left the company about that time. But I wonder what would happen if CT got a few thousand inquiries of the form "Are you gonna sell it yourself now?"
lynn@engr.uky.edu (H. Lynn Tilley) (03/11/88)
I recently heard that convergent tech. was going to release source code for the 7300/3b1 computers. Can anyone confirm, deny and/or pass along more information on the subject. thanks -- | Henry L. Tilley UUCP: {cbosgd|uunet}!ukma!ukecc!lynn | University of Kentucky CSNET: lynn@engr.uky.edu V Engineering Computer Center BITNET: lynn%ukecc.uucp@ukma O voice: (606) 257-1752 ARPANET: lynn@a.ecc.engr.uky.edu