28 Jan
1998
28 Jan
'98
2:45 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:03:21 -0600 (CST), Uncle Roger
<sinasohn(a)ricochet.net> wrote:
It's a shame...but it seems to me that DEC
should have seen it coming.
>Can't disagree there...
Well, I should clarify. I'm sure that they did see it coming. A buyout
of some form was headed for DEC like a Conrail freight train traveling at
100 mph. I'm not too well-versed with DEC's current product line, but I get
the impression that, while good quality and adequate performers, there is
nothing very distinguishing.
Death comes to the last of the old-line computer
companies.
>Huh? What about HP? Still going strong with the HP3000 (ca. 1972?).
I probably shouldn't have said "last" either. Wasn't DEC part of
the
original "seven dwarfs" of early computing? I think that IBM was "Snow
White" and there were seven other mini/main companies right behind it. When
I said "old line," I was thinking along the lines of Sperry and Burroughs
and not HP or IBM.
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