R: HP to acquire SGI

[Ian S. King]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:09 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:

> On 8/12/2016 9:15 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
>>
>>> It was not enough to have mishandled vms, and killed palm. Now they
>>> want to destroy also what's left of SGI ?
>>> Better I don't say what I'm really thinking...
>>>
>>
>> "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for men of good conscience to
>> remain silent."
>>
>>
>> Apollo, DEC, Compaq, Ericsson, Palm, . . .
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlett-Packard
>>
>>
>> If HP and Microsoft merged, would it put an end to computers?
>>
>
> HP-BOX now runs all the games and windows* too. Ben.
> * Game of upgrading every 9 months.
>
>
Grab all the SGI docs/bits you can, before HP sends them to /dev/null and
404....

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