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it wasn’t so long ago that Silicon Valley was considered a poor cousin of Boston’s tech center This was never true. It's true that the Valley has pulled furth
by pg 17y ago
it wasn’t so long ago that Silicon Valley was considered a poor cousin of Boston’s tech center
This was never true. It's true that the Valley has pulled further ahead of Route 128, but it was always the leader.
- fpgeek 17y agoGrowing up in MA as a DEC child, I'll admit my perspective is biased... but when I grew up when DEC was the #2 computer company in the world. And they were far from the only Route 128 powerhouse. I'm not saying the Valley doesn't have its own powerful history, but think about this: In its heyday, Route 128 was so big that, decades later, the rubble from what is left is still the #2 tech center in the US and the world.
- wglb 17y agoNo question, but was it ever really startup-heavy?
- fpgeek 17y agoWell, back in the day DEC was an MIT startup, wasn't it? And these days there are a lot of ex-DEC, ex-Data General, etc. startups. That being said, I guess my upbringing is coming through - I care more about tech-heavy than startup-heavy.