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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!apl
- From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Does anyone remember the Tandy 6000?
- Message-ID: <BzExC7.FJI@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- References: <suwandi.724558019@sfu.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:48:06 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- suwandi@fraser.sfu.ca (Julian Suwandi) writes:
- : Hmm... let me refer to my prehistoric guide to computers... <flip, flip> no,
- : no, no, hmm.. it seems that it's been extinct for quite a while..
- :
- Flippant response.
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- Actually, there are still people running these things. They are
- about as fast as an 8MHZ 286, and about as reliable as the same thing
- with a speed-up crystal :-)
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- Extinct? Not quite yet. But many of us are working toward that end :-)
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- : Anyway, I have doubts about it running Xenix, if it makes you feel better.. :)
- : --
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- You have doubts? Well, that settles it.
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- You'd probably doubt that there was an 8086 version of Xenix too, but
- there was.
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- Just a while ago Tandy sold off the last of it's inventory and they
- ended up in Home Shopping Club (or whatever) and were being peddled
- (with Xenix!) as multi-user machines.
-
- : ********************** KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS *********************
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- Keep Christ to yourself.
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- Tony apl@world.std.com
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