UNIX PC going into production again?
Boyd Ostroff
ostroff at oswego.Oswego.EDU
Sat Feb 27 10:02:38 AEST 1988
In article <1029 at woton.UUCP> riddle at woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) writes:
>
>On the other hand, the latest gossip is that AT&T (or presumably
>Convergent) is about to put the UNIX PC into production again
>
In the March issue of UNIX WORLD ("Can You Afford a Workstation Yet?", p50)
Walter Zintz writes:
"Then there is what may be the greatest workstation bargain of them
all - AT&T's foundling, the 3B1.
(description of the 3B1 omitted)
Then AT&T marketers overpriced it and compounded the problem by
pushing it as a PC. Sales went nowhere; the warehouse started to
overflow. So AT&T had a giveaway clearance sale last summer and
now has them made in much smaller quantities."
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