A.T.&T.-Sun near end of a key software race
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AT and T and Sun Microsystems Inc will introduce a new UNIX operating system that will merge the most popular versions into a single program. The combined UNIX system, to be known as UNIX System V 4.0, will be the new software standard for operating systems. UNIX is the only operating system that runs on all classes of computers, from microcomputers and workstations to mainframe computers. Wide industry agreement to support UNIX V increases the possibility that UNIX would be accepted in the business community. There is little industry agreement on anything that has to do with standardization, however. After the AT and T-Sun alliance, HP, IBM, DEC and other software and hardware manufacturers formed the Open Software Foundation (OSF) with the goal was to create an open version of the UNIX program. Now that AT and T and Sun appear to be successful in their collaboration, defections from OSF are imminent.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1989
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Sun Microsystems to battle rivals with new machines
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Sun Microsystems Inc is releasing its $18,495 to $57,995 SPARCstation 10 workstations. The SPARCstation 10 is based on Texas Instruments Inc's Viking microprocessor, which achieves speeds over two times as fast as Sun's previous workstations. Although the Viking is not as fast as was anticipated in its development, being slower than DEC's as-yet-undelivered Alpha microprocessor, the new Sun's workstations are easily upgradable to higher processing speeds. The SPARCstation uses scalable processor architecture, which allows multiprocessing of 100 million instructions per second in the relatively small workstation box. Sun is also including support for Integrated Services Digital Networks in the SPARCstation 10, a technology expected to become standard for voice and data communications.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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A.T&T. introduces server computer line
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The AT and T Starserver E series file server is based on Intel's 80486 microprocessor chip, uses the Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) and is designed to support networks of desktop computers. The file servers, which are priced between $27,500 and $39,900, run on the Unix operating system, come configured with between one and four Intel 80486 chips and can reach speeds of 100 million instructions per second (mips). The new file servers represents AT and T's effort to enter the growing network computing market, and were displayed at the Comdex computer trade show in Atlanta.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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