On 15 Nov 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Dan Linder skrev:
>
> >Just announced on /., the venerable HP3000 line will join HP calculators
> >in HP's new "we don't want to do cool stuff anymore" business model.
>
> But was the HP-3000 really cool? I know nothing at all about the system, apart
> from that it's a business-oriented mainframe or mini range.
Well, Eric called MPE "odd", and in my book, anything "odd" in computers
is pretty darn cool. (Note that "cool" != "usable" | "nice" | "smart" |
etc) :)
- Dan
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Dan Linder / dlinder _at_ uiuc.edu
Graduate Student, College of Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science
- Dept. of Computer Science Teaching Assistant
- DRES Computer Accessibility Researcher
Received on Wed Nov 14 2001 - 21:01:29 GMT