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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!labtam!graeme
- From: graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill)
- Subject: Re: 960 XA/MX Questions
- Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:36:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.053615.22689@labtam.labtam.oz.au>
- References: <1993Jan6.023733.5129@netcom.com> <MKAHN.93Jan7074846@hopi.sedona.intel.com>
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- In article <MKAHN.93Jan7074846@hopi.sedona.intel.com>, mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn) writes:
- > guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- > Nntp-Posting-Host: auspex.auspex.com
- > ]
- > ] >As of this time, we have no plans to sell the XA/MX products
- > ] >for commercial uses.
- > ] Why not? (Technical, or Marketoon(TM), reasons?)
- >
- > Marketoon(tm) reasons to be exact. There is very little demand
- > for products with the capabilities of the MX/XA outside of the
- > military.
-
- From this I gather that graphics (ie. Xterminals) and multi-media
- do not amount to much demand. I guess this just means that the next generation
- product won't be using 960s in them ...
-
- Graeme Gill
-