From: rich@tosh.wcc.govt.nz (Richard Naylor )
Newsgroups: nz.comp
Subject: Vogon News 27 August 1992
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 23:05:13 GMT
Organization: City Net -  Wellington City Council's Community Computer Network

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28-Aug-1992

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        VNS UK SPORTS REPORT ..............................   29   "

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VNS COMPUTER NEWS:                            [Tracy Talcott, VNS Computer Desk]
==================                            [Nashua, NH, USA                 ]

    Tuesday's Market                               Digital Fair Market Value
      Quote     Change                              2-Dec-1991   $60.6875
 IBM	87 1/8	+2				   29-May-1992   $42.4375
                                                   85% of lower  $36.250
    Wednesday's Market	   Dow Jones    Change      1-Jun-1992   $40.750
 DEC	35 3/4	-  1/8	   3246.81	+14.59

 Apple - Has purchased Eastman Kodak's color printer technology for use in 
	future computers
	{The Wall Street Journal, 25-Aug-92, p. B7}
	{Contributed by: Mike Taylor} 
   Terms of the pact were not given. The companies said it is part of a larger
 agreement in which all of Apple's future computers will be able to read Photo
 CD disks. Kodak also plans to use Apple's machines in its new "imaging
 workstations". The imaging workstations will be sold to specialty copy shops
 and photo retailers for rental to customers who want to record sound and
 pictures on their disks. 

 Wang - Creditors' committee ready to be formed
	{The Nashua Telegraph, 26-Aug-92}
   The U.S. Trustee is expected to appoint a committee from Wang's 20 largest
 creditors today. That committee will play a key role in advising the
 bankruptcy judge whether to accept Wang's reorganization plan, which hasn't
 been completed.

 Digital - Rolls-Royce chooses Digital's Cohesion ASD/SEE for key pilot project
	{Livewire, Worldwide News, 26-Aug-92}
   NEI Control Systems Limited (NEI-CSL), a part of the Rolls-Royce Industrial 
 Power Group, selected Digital to deliver a comprehensive software environment
 for the design and development of high quality, high integrity software
 systems. NEI-CSL specializes in the design and supply of control and
 instrumentation systems. 
   Using COHESION ASD/SEE (Aerospace-Defense/Software Engineering Environment),
 the basis for NEI's selection, Digital will provide a facility which is
 consistent with the Rolls-Royce Aerospace and Industrial Power Groups strategy
 to define a common environment to support the multiple software development
 initiatives currently underway.
   "This award signals international recognition of ASD/SEE as a world-class 
 software solution," said Al Olsen, Software Engineering Group Marketing 
 manager. "It offers our customers a software engineering environment that is
 based on a suite of tools selected by our customers, and represents the best
 in class."  
   COHESION ASD/SEE is a component of Digital's COHESION environment, a 
 comprehensive set of integrated software products and services for computer-
 aided software engineering (CASE). Based on Digital's Network Application 
 Support (NAS) architecture and designed for both VMS and UNIX platforms, the 
 COHESION environment brings together multiple computing platforms, vendors, 
 tools, application types, computing styles and support services for
 development projects of all sizes.
 ---
 UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.

 Digital, AMP-AKZO - Finalize sale of Greenville PWB facility
	{Livewire, Worldwide News, 25-Aug-92}
   The sale of Digital's Greenville, South Carolina Printed Wiring Board (PWB) 
 facility to AMP-AKZO of Hauppauge, New York, has been finalized. All active 
 Digital employees have been offered jobs by the new owners. 
   Ed McDonough, vice president, Manufacturing and Logistics, said the 
 Greenville operation, under AMP-AKZO's ownership, will continue to be a 
 supplier to Digital and to play an important role in the supply chain. Ed 
 explained that the decision to sell Greenville is based on Digital's 
 manufacturing strategy, which centers on investing in areas that support 
 Digital's core competencies and divesting from those that do not differentiate
 the company from its competitors.
   AMP-AKZO Corp. provides high-quality, value-added printed circuit board 
 materials, chemicals, processes, products and services to the electronic 
 industry.


VNS UK SPORTS REPORT:                             [Ken Merrick, VNS Sports Desk]
=====================                             [Valbonne, France            ]

||| CRICKET
    Alan Lamb has been fined an unspecified "maximum sum" and suspended for two
    weeks following the publication of an unapproved article in the Daily
    Mirror. In the article, Lamb accused the Pakistan bowlers of cheating.

||| FOOTBALL
    World Cup qualifier : Latvia ...... 0  Denmark ..... 0
    Friendly Matches    : France ...... 0  Brazil ...... 2
                          Roumania .... 2  Mexico ...... 0
                          Norway ...... 2  Sweden ...... 2
                          Poland ...... 0  Finland ..... 0

    FA Premier League
    Arsenal ....... 2  Oldham Athletic .... 0
    Chelsea ....... 0  Blackburn Rovers ... 0
    Coventry City . 0  Queen's Park Rangers 1
    Manchester City 3  Norwich City ....... 1

    Barclays League First Division
    Leicester City  3  Derby County ....... 2

    Skol Cup 4th Round
    Falkirk ....... 1  Aberdeen ........... 4
    Dundee Utd .... 2  Rangers ............ 3 (aet)
    Hearts ........ 1  Celtic ............. 2

||| MOTOR SPORT
    Ferrari have confirmed that Gerhard Berger will drive for them in 1993.
    The Austrian has signed a three-year contract 


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