!Re: Nuke Redmond!

From: Huw Davies <cchd_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Fri Apr 7 20:13:53 2000

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.

Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
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