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Then there is the possibility that Microsoft and Intel may end up abetting each other's enemies as they move to expand their own options. Intel's newer chips will run competing operating systems, like UNIX, for instance, while Microsoft intends to write versions of its Windows NT for computer chips designed by Intel rivals Digital Equipment and MIPS...
...industry has a considerable stake in this sideshow. OS/2 was supposed to be a new standard, but its weak showing so far has left the field open. AT&T, for instance, is pushing its Unix operating system, and Apple Computer is promoting a program of its own. This week Apple will introduce an advanced version of the Macintosh operating system...
...also suits AT&T's long-term computer strategy. The two companies' machines are largely compatible, using the same operating software, called Unix, invented by AT&T in 1969. As a result, they would be able to integrate their product lines rather than face the dilemma of having to eliminate a system. But more important for AT&T, the addition of NCR would enhance the company's position in its ongoing battle with IBM to establish Unix as the industry standard. Both companies want to replace the technically outdated standard known as DOS. IBM's entry, called OS/2, appears...
...approached NCR in 1988, but the response was the same as today's: no, thanks. NCR only recently revamped its product line, shifting from computers using its own software system to machines that run Unix and DOS. "We didn't want AT&T's computer mess dumped on us then, and we don't want it now," says Charles Exley, NCR's chief executive. In discussions last week with AT&T's chief executive, Robert Allen, Exley warned of the history of failed computer marriages, such as Sperry and Burroughs or IBM and Rolm: "The industry graveyard is littered with...
...esoteric debates over formats and components. Case in point: the controversy over an industry-wide computer "operating system." While the selection of this format is critically important to computer companies, customers tend to be confused by the endless discussions over the relative merits of such systems as OS/2 and UNIX. The same goes for the rivalry between the two fastest chips, the Intel 80486 and the Motorola 68040. "The industry is so busy talking inside baseball that it has forgotten the customers. They're thoroughly confused by all this alphabet soup," says James Morris, a computer-science professor at Carnegie...