From: "Seth Morabito" <web@loomcom.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Reaction to the 3B2 at Bell Labs
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 10:46:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f278bf8-de57-4e77-a3b8-d007d7c3a446@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
Hello all,
I'm giving a presentation on the AT&T 3B2 at a local makerspace next month, and while I've been preparing the talk I became curious about an aspect that I don't know has been discussed elsewhere.
I'm well aware that the 3B2 was something of a market failure with not much penetration into the wider commercial UNIX space, but I'm very curious to know more about what the reaction was at Bell Labs. When AT&T entered the computer hardware market after the 1984 breakup, I get the impression that there wasn't very much interest in any of it at Bell Labs, is that true?
Can anyone recall what the general mood was regarding the 3B2 (and the 7300 and the 6300, I suppose!)
-Seth
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Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA
web@loomcom.com
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-26 18:46 Seth Morabito [this message]
2022-11-26 19:18 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 20:04 ` Seth Morabito
2022-11-26 20:42 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-26 21:46 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-26 23:00 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-26 23:23 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 23:47 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-27 0:17 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-27 4:43 ` Phil Budne
2022-11-27 14:51 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-27 15:29 ` arnold
2022-11-27 16:11 ` Ron Natalie
2022-11-27 16:59 ` Warner Losh
2022-11-27 18:59 ` arnold
2022-11-27 20:45 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-28 18:53 ` William Corcoran
2022-11-28 20:59 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-11-28 22:33 ` ron minnich
2022-11-28 22:43 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-29 1:49 ` Alan Glasser
2022-12-01 6:10 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-12-01 8:30 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-01 8:53 ` arnold
2022-12-01 9:19 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2022-12-01 12:25 ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-01 10:00 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-01 10:17 ` arnold
2022-11-27 14:53 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 19:21 ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-11-29 11:33 ` alan
2022-11-30 2:50 ` Mary Ann Horton
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