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It's actually a better article than I was expecting May I also add Borland, who at one time built some of the best programmer software ever. Turbo Pascal was b
by cubicle67 17y ago
It's actually a better article than I was expecting
May I also add Borland, who at one time built some of the best programmer software ever. Turbo Pascal was brilliant, and Delphi was so far ahead of anything else in it's day I could cry. [cuts long rant short...] There should be a special spot reserved in Hell for Borland management, right next to the management of Commodore.
Finally, lets not forget that once great electronics company Hewlett Packard, makers of the finest (and most expensive) electronics test gear bar none. A true engineering company with world class products that has now become yet-another-printer-manufacturer and maker of crappy budget PCs
- wglb 17y agoThey actually didn't build much of their stuff, for example, Turbo Pascal was built by a contractor, and they tried to build Turbo C for quite a while before they bought that as well. What they did have was glow-in-the-dark PR and Marketing. Didn't HP spin off the electronics test gear?
- jbl 17y agoYep. The test gear subsidiary (spin off?) is called Agilent. It's probably the last remaining vestige of the HP of yore.
- jacquesm 17y agoI wouldn't call HP so much a printer manufacturer as a manufacturer of subscriptions to disposables.