Looking to give away *old* linux PCs

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Summary: although the Alpha chip had a great architecture, DEC did a
>> number of things to kneecap it, especially in the Multia.
>
> DEC marketing did mostly everything wrong.

The classic joke was that if they were fighting their way out of a wet
paper bag, surface tension would be an insurmountable problem.

I've got a non-functioning Multia in my closet...  Pretty but slow...
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