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Newsflash: when you make computer hardware, you're still going to make software, because it doesn't work without firmware for those 10 different processors and

• flukus 10y ago
  HP doesn't make them though, just package them. As far as I'm concerned, the less software made by hardware companies the better. They suck at software, they don't seem to realize that it isn't "built" like hardware is, once it's out it's never updated. We all end up with computers/devices gimped by "value add" crapware. Apple is the exception that proves the rule.
  • planteen 10y ago
    The big Unix vendors in the 90s were pretty good at both... PA-RISC & HP-UX, SPARC & Solaris, Alpha & Tru64
    • flukus 10y ago
      They all focused on selling service contracts and not hardware didn't they?
    • coredog64 10y ago
      DEC was also responsible for the AXP port of Windows NT. Compaq pulled the plug right before the Windows 2000 RTM release. That in turn led to the awesome FX!32 tool that could emulate (and then translate) x86 software to the Alpha instruction set. There were cases where the transmogrified software ran faster than it did natively on x86.
• outworlder 10y ago
  This is talking about Hewlett Packard Enterprise. You are thinking of HP Inc.
  • ajdlinux 10y ago
    ... HPE makes hardware too...