HP & Compaq

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue Sep 4 21:08:53 2001

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>

>The last time I remember DEC inventing anything fairly current was when
they
>came up with the VAX. That was 25 years ago. Everything they sold was
the
>OLDEST technology they could get and still foist of on the unwary buyer.
They'd
>NEVER have used anything as up-to-date as what Intel pushes, not that
it's the
>latest-greatest.


By time it's available for hobbiests maybe. Most of the stable products
were ahead
of the pack, they had to be the pack was hungry and chasing!

Lessee, Alpha, remember the 64 bit cpu that was what 10 years ahead of
Itainium
and the slow parts were maybe 2 times the speed of the fastest intel part
running intel
emulation.

DLT quantums flagship tape backup... formally a DEC patent and was the
TK50
back in the mid 80s when the competition was DC600 and 9080 carts.

The RZ series of 3.5" drives were connor electonics but the HDA were DEC
technology and design. Those SCSI drives were right on the front edge of
SCSI standards that were still emerging. Oh and they were fast as well
for their time.

Beware the comment that sounds like allways and never, rarely are things
really that way.

DEC was one of the leaders, while they were selling PDP-8s in the
form of DECmates and PDP-11s to people that didnt want or need VAXen.
Even those "old" systems were sometimes more modern than the PCs
of the moment. If anything else they were more likely to be to be found
in use or at least working in the early 21st century.

Allison
Received on Tue Sep 04 2001 - 21:08:53 BST