Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!hlexa!pcl From: pcl@hlexa.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.rumor Subject: Will IBM use UNIX (tm) across the line? Message-ID: <1188@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 19:30:02 EST Article-I.D.: hlexa.1188 Posted: Mon Feb 6 19:30:02 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 10:05:43 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 16 From: notes@hlexa.UUCP Newsgroups: pr.presstp SIGNS OF UNIX SUPPORT SEEN COMING FROM IBM, Computerworld, Jan. 23, p. 6. IBM's announcement of a UNIX-based operating system for its Personal Computer was a powerful endorsement of the multiuser microcomputer and programmer workstation concepts. Many observers see the introduction of the computers as part of an overall game plan to support UNIX across the entire line. "We are all waiting for the other shoe to drop, says one expert, "when IBM says it will support UNIX through its entire product line, that will be the really important announcement."