Well, I found out that Atari is kicking. Has anyone heard about the game
"Primal Rage" It's copywrighted to Atari Games.
Tim D. Hotze
PS-It's my opinion that OS/2 (there making a new version) and DEC will be
around, in one form or another, for quite awhile.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Prymmer <pvhp_at_forte.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: DEC Sold to Compaq!
>classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
>Subj: Re: DEC Sold to Compaq!
>
>Richard A. Cini wrote:
>
>>Well, you could see it coming. Poor financial performance (and hence, weak
>>stock price) over the last few years. Weak products. Then, DEC sells-out
the
>>Crown Jewels (its Alpha procesor) to Intel.
>>
>> After listening to an interview with Eckhard Pfeiffer of Compaq, they
>>paid $9.6 billion for DEC's customer list, not its products. He mentions
>>nothing about DEC's products.
>
>According to the scoop on DEC web pages and in comp.os.vms and various VMS
>mailing list he said:
>
> We are committed to...investing in Digital's strategic assets,
particularly
> its worldwide service organization, as well as its 64-bit leadership with
Alpha
> microprocessors, OpenVMS, Digital UNIX and Windows NT enterprise systems,
> open storage, and software products," Eckhard Pfeiffer, president and
chief
> executive officer of Compaq, said in a statement.
>
>And all the VMS geeks are tickled pink that he mentioned VMS first on the
list
>of OSes and point out that DEC CEO Bob Palmer hasn't been known to do that.
>
>> It's a shame...but it seems to me that DEC should have seen it coming.
>>Death comes to the last of the old-line computer companies.
>
>Well IBM is still alive and kicking (rumour is that the whole OS/2 shop has
>been fired/re-assigned/real-estate liqidated but AS/400 minis and
mainframes
>are making a strong comeback). I Don't know much about Unisys though...
>
>Peter Prymmer
>
>
>
Received on Mon Jan 26 1998 - 21:36:41 GMT