IBM rumored to be planning UNIX - (nf)
franka at tekcad.UUCP
franka at tekcad.UUCP
Sat Dec 10 02:58:17 AEST 1983
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tekcad!franka Dec 9 08:58:00 1983
>/***** tekcad:net.unix / hlexa!pcl / 1:39 am Dec 8, 1983*/
>Subject: Re: IBM rumored to be planning UNIX support
>
>Subject: IBM UNIX DECLARATION EXPECTED - (nf)
>
>UNIX IMPLEMENTATION FOR IBM COMPUTERS
>ANTICIPATED, Information Systems News, 11/28,
>p.1. Industry sources reported that IBM will
>make a major announcement defining its strategy
>for providing UNIX for its mainframe
>processors, and possibly for its PCs. The
>announcement may come by mid-December. Some
>sources see the strategy declaration as
>forestalling possible competitive pressure from
>AT&T after Jan 1; others view it as answering
>customers' clamor for UNIX applications.
>Several leading software firms are pursuing
>UNIX development contracts with IBM.
>/* ---------- */
Well, if IBM is using it, there MUST be something wrong with it. Guess it's
time to switch to a new OS.
From the truly menacing,
/- -\ but usually underestimated,
<-> Frank Adrian
(tektronix!tekcad!franka)
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