Does AT&T use Unix?

[Romeo Gonzalez]

In article <413 at marob.MASA.COM>, daveh at marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond) writes:
> 
> This is a silly little question which arguably might have been posted
> to comp.misc, however its Unix related:
> 
> Does anyone have information concerning where (if at all) Unix is applied
> in AT&T's non-Unix business divisions?  For example, do long distance
> operators use Unix workstations, or are network call routing systems
> Unix-based, or is AT&T's billing done on Unix machines?
> 
> Just an idle curiosity ...
> 
> --
> Dave Hammond
UNIX (TM) is used across all facets of business.
1. There are different architectures that link from MSDOS(YUK)
   AT&T 6300 PC's, AT&T 6386's to 3B2's (400, 600, 700 and 4000's)
   to 3B20's and Amdalhs (UNIX Based all the above)
   all the way up to IBM 3090's.

   BTW, all Vaxes are got with exeption of a few still in Technologies
   plants, (the ones being shoot down).

2. My group's developed a data entry system for 3B2's, and have the
   6386 (UNIX too) version under development, that transmits via RJE
   and UUCP to IBM and AT&T 3B20's financial systems. 

3. Another use is down loading from mainframes to 3B2's for MIS's. 
   I developed and support one of this (3B2/600) for our service
   material requirements inventory system (which is run in two Amdahls).

4. Others have Teradata UNIX interface running with Amdahls, and AT&T 3B's.

5. There are major applications using AT&T Escort transaction manager hitting
   large mainframe databases.

These are some examples in the financial arena.

Others in the Labs are in the Year 2000 playing with future products
that will break all imaginable barriers.

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Romeo J. Gonzalez
AT&T Maitland Fl.
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