richard@xanth.ingr.com (Richard Griffiths ) (10/30/90)
The October 15 issue of Computer Systems News has a blurb stating that Intel is dropping out of the workstation market. When they purchased Bell Technologies, they were trying to break in to the low end workstations. I assume the Blit card is history. Any ideas as to what this portends for their Unix offering? I sympathize with Bell Tech, I worked for BiiN, Another Intel success story. Richard A. Griffiths ...uunet!ingr!b11!xanth!richard (UUCP) Intergraph Corp. richard@b11.ingr.com (Internet) "Part of this D minus belongs to God." - Bart Simpson
ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (11/01/90)
In article <9248@b11.ingr.com> richard@xanth.ingr.com (Richard Griffiths ) writes: >The October 15 issue of Computer Systems News has a blurb stating that Intel >is dropping out of the workstation market. When they purchased Bell >Technologies, they were trying to break in to the low end workstations. They are dropping out of the packaged PC market (when were they in the workstation market?). Electronic News cites several reasons, the most probable being that they weren't able to garner any market share and that several of their big chip customers (Compaq, et.al.) were less than pleased that Intel was competing directly with them in their market. > I assume the Blit card is history. Any ideas as to what this portends for >their Unix offering? They still support the BLIT? What revision of X do they support? > I sympathize with Bell Tech, I worked for BiiN, Another Intel success >story. There was a note in the EN article that Dimitri Rowtow had been reassigned to a "staff postition". I believe he was GM of the division. As an asside: is the new versions of the i960 recently announced (I forget the suffix) the BiiN version? >"Part of this D minus belongs to God." - Bart Simpson I've been there.... -- ken seefried iii "A snear, a snarl, a whip that ken@dali.gatech.edu stings...these are a few of my favorite things..."
paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) (11/02/90)
richard@xanth.ingr.com (Richard Griffiths ) writes: >The October 15 issue of Computer Systems News has a blurb stating that Intel >is dropping out of the workstation market. When they purchased Bell >Technologies, they were trying to break in to the low end workstations. > I assume the Blit card is history. Any ideas as to what this portends for >their Unix offering? According to our local Intel rep, _all_ the hardware add-ons are being dropped (ACE/8-port, HUB/6-port, ICC, PC586/ethernet) by June 1991. The Blit is off the market already (according to these guys -- they can no longer find it in their price lists). Support (such as there is) will continue until June 1996. They plan to keep selling complete [34]86 _and_ i860 systems, Unix, etc. It is just the add-on market that they are dropping out of. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paul Nash Flagship Wide Area Networks (Pty) Ltd paul@frcs.UUCP ...!ddsw1!proxima!frcs!paul
david@twg.com (David S. Herron) (11/06/90)
In article <16147@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes: >In article <9248@b11.ingr.com> richard@xanth.ingr.com (Richard Griffiths ) writes: >> I assume the Blit card is history. Any ideas as to what this portends for >>their Unix offering? > >They still support the BLIT? What revision of X do they support? No they don't.. The only commercial driver I was able to find for the BLIT card was in Interactive's 386/ix & X11 stuff. BTW, Intel is offering SysVr4 to people.. is that only for `developers'? -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <david@twg.com> <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <david@ms.uky.edu> <- <- Use the force Wes!
larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) (11/06/90)
david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: >BTW, Intel is offering SysVr4 to people.. is that only for `developers'? To anyone.. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA {larry@nstar, uunet!sco!romed!nstar!larry, nstar%larry@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu} backbone usenet newsfeeds available Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-0282 (5 high speed lines)
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (11/07/90)
In article <1990Nov06.120711.13454@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: >david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: > >>BTW, Intel is offering SysVr4 to people.. is that only for `developers'? > >To anyone.. It is available to anyone, but is a "developer's" release. (read that as: you can expect to have problems with it). -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (11/08/90)
In article <1990Nov07.010508.2396@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: | It is available to anyone, but is a "developer's" release. (read that as: | you can expect to have problems with it). By that definition I can call everything I ever got from certain vendors "development release." -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me