20ish years old: Gray's survey of Computer Industry Laws

Mon Jun 9 16:54:06 UTC 2014

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:17:35AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> DEC tried to segue from VAX to Alpha (via OpenVMS and Windows NT) but
> did a swan-dive.  The trajectory reminds me of Blackberry.  Both
> companies had worthy products but execution details caused horrible
> results.

Perhaps if they had priced it sanely.  But they seemed to worried about
hurting the sale of the VAX (never mind everyone else was happy to hurt
the sale of the VAX for them).

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Len Sorensen
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