Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!pacbell!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!cem From: cem@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Malloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 6386 WGS - What does the suffix 'WGS' mean? Message-ID: <5282@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 14 Jul 88 12:16:03 GMT References: <365@pyuxf.UUCP> <1403@lznv.ATT.COM> <25057@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 13 In article <25057@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, brand@janus.uucp (Graham Brand) writes: > I have seen the suffix WGS appended to both the 6386 and the older > 6300 machines. Is it an acronym for something and, if so, what? WGS is indeed an acronym. It stands for Work Group System. The older AT&T PC6300 is not a WGS. There is however a 6300WGS. It is a new machine. The only thing that is shares with the PC6300 is the 8086 family CPU chip. It is faster (10 Mhz) and does not suffer from the video problems that some people complained about. That is, there is no intrinsic video card, any card will do. Clancy Malloy AT&T Bell Labs ihnp4!ihlpf!cem