Rumors...

[John B. Milton]

Where do journalists get this stuff?

[What follows is reproduced without permission from "Computer Design"]

In the October 15 issue, page 9, the News Briefs section.
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Sparc wins and loses
[first paragraph omitted]

Rumors are circulating that AT&T
(Morristown, NJ) is reconsidering
its earlier commitment to Sparc and
will turn instead to Motorola's
88000 as its core processor for fu-
ture Unix System V-based com-
puters. The Sun/AT&T agreement,
signed last January, created a furor
among Unix licensees that eventu-
ally resulted in the formation of the
Open Software Foundation (OSF)
Apparently, the agreement was also
viewed within AT&T as a threat to
the company's longstanding rela-
tionship with Motorola. AT&T uses
Motorola's 68000 family of process-
sors in its 3B line of minicomputers.
[rest omitted]
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That last sentance is interesting. Does that mean I really have a minicomputer?
I think they got the tense of the "uses" wrong. Oh no, better call Convergent
and tell them to make more UNIXpcs :)

John
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