The programs that AT&T won't release (was: NO on comp.sys.att.3b1)
Augustine Cano
afc at shibaya.lonestar.org
Fri Dec 7 12:00:52 AEST 1990
In article <459 at hico2.UUCP> kak at hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes:
>
>2. AT&T does not support the 3b1. AT&T does not even release
> some nice software packages that already exist and were written
> for the 3b1. (there exists, for example, a troff package with
> a 3b1 screen previewer that will even work with 8-pin or 24-pin
> printers). Although hardware upgrades and other such exist,
> they are entirely supplied by small-time independent organizations.
Given the amount of time that has passed since AT&T gave up on the unix pc,
and the more recent release of the kernel object files. Is there now a
chance that AT&T would reconsider and release (in a completely unsupported
fashion of course) the above goodies as well as other programs? Paint
Power comes to mind...
> Kris A. Kugel
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