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Honestly, it's more depressing to think of the things Digital ran into the ground: VMS (let's keep it expensive and hard to get ahold of while Unix is getting
by rodgerd 13y ago
Honestly, it's more depressing to think of the things Digital ran into the ground:
VMS (let's keep it expensive and hard to get ahold of while Unix is getting cheaper, and oh, then we'll decide we're a Windows shop anyway).
Flogging off their database technology to Oracle.
Alpha. Poor, poor Alpha.
The waste of giving the StrongARM to Intel, who would ultimately kill it.
AltaVista, of course.
Tru64's good bits (like AdvFS) was criminally wasted, although I guess that's more HP's fault in the end.
- Zigurd 13y agoVery true. DEC could have been a major router maker, could have been Google, could have been a major CPU maker, could have been a major database vendor, and could have had a major piece of the PC business. That's got to be the world championship of neglecting great engineering (maybe excepting Xerox). Poor AltaVista went from a neglectful parent to a neglectful foster home.