On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:
On April 7, Huw Davies wrote:
I heard
that DEC is making PCs and laptops these days that come bundled
with Windows.
Unless I'm sadly mistaken, DEC no longer exists.
So they got bought. I can still pick up the phone and order a VAX
or an Alpha...and get a damn good machine. As long as I can do
that, DEC exists.
I doubt very much that Compaq can sell you a new VAX. We built what was
deemed enough VAX chips and when the announcement came that VAX was
end-of-life somone bought lots of them. I heard rumors that it was Intel
(as VAXen run lots of their fab plants) but have no proof of this.
I agree that DEC lives on inside Compaq (that's the bit of the company I
work in) but there have been lots of changes. I'm not qualified to talk
about them as I didn't work for Digital.
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