7300/3B1 differences

[Isaac Rabinovitch]

In article <630 at jolnet.UUCP>, scottc at jolnet.UUCP (Scott Craig) writes:
> 
>     Will all of the software that runs on the 3B1 also work without
> modification on a 7300?
There are technically erudite people who probably have already posted
more useful answers than I can offer.  But I just want to point out
that the "3B1" label is pure marketing eyewash.  Long before the 7300
(previously known as the Unix PC, before that known as the Safari 4,
before that known as MicroFrame), indeed back when they were a utility
and not allowed to sell computers except to companies connected to the
Bell System, ATT's 3B series was a line of micros and minis.  The micros
CPU was a proprietary chip.  Calling one of the versions of the 7300 the
"3B1" was very misleading because *it* is based on the Motorola 68010.
But the name gave the illusion of a dovetailed product.  I suppose they
had the same idea in mind when the called another version the "7300", to
be sold with the 6300, and equally dissimilar machine.