Intel, Bell Tech. & Unix

[Paul Nash]

richard at xanth.ingr.com (Richard Griffiths ) writes:

>The October 15 issue of Computer Systems News has a blurb stating that Intel 
>is dropping out of the workstation market.  When they purchased Bell
>Technologies, they were trying to break in to the low end workstations.  

>  I assume the Blit card is history.  Any ideas as to what this portends for
>their Unix offering?  

According to our local Intel rep, _all_ the hardware add-ons are being
dropped (ACE/8-port, HUB/6-port, ICC, PC586/ethernet) by June 1991. The
Blit is off the market already (according to these guys -- they can
no longer find it in their price lists).  Support (such as there is)
will continue until June 1996.

They plan to keep selling complete [34]86 _and_ i860 systems, Unix,
etc. It is just the add-on market that they are dropping out of.


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