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Subject: Re: InfoWorld Article on AT&T 6386 WGS
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Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 23:34:30 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 29 23:34:30 1987
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Keywords: 6386, Steven Satchell, Performance
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Summary: I agree; I didn't like the Infoworld article either.


I too was unnerved by the Infowold discussion of the AT&T
workstation 386.  Aside from the out and out mistakes in the
article that have benn cited:

Infoworld, while giving lip service to Unix, is a blue pin striped
msdos slave.  They didn't give any considerations to functionality
of the machine beyond its ability to run msdos dhrystones (or
whatever their bench criterion is).

The networking ability and the Unix/DOS merge functions are unique
to the workstation 386; they were not considered in the article.
These are unique and important assets.

Infoworld is too sensitive to price in determining the overall
rating of a product.  Often a crappy product is given a higher
rating than a better fucntioning product, simply because the crappy
product is cheaper.  People that buy IBM have certainly proved that
in business, the cost of capital equipment is not a major issue.

--Bill