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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: AT&T vs. the toolkit approach
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Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 23:46:26 EDT
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> 	I think that AT&T is responding to the marketplace - not the
> 	hacker marketplace, but the real world one they hope will buy
> 	their machines.

> Where are all these real-world people? Apollo has some 2000 units in
> the field. Sun has a couple of hundred, I would guess. How many of
> these are give-aways? How many went to hackers of one sort or
> another? How many are actually used by these application-oriented
> people? Would you put up with Unix for $20K with only binaries,
> even though you DO know something about it?

The Sun/Apollo marketplace isn't the 3B2 marketplace.  The 3B2 marketplace
is the Fortune 32:16 marketplace, the Zilog System 8000 marketplace, the
Altos Whatever marketplace, the Plexus Whatever marketplace, etc..  It's
the small multiuser box markeplace, not the single-user high-power bit-mapped-
display workstation marketplace.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy