Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : (at) *nospam* ednolan (ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 08. Mar 2025, 05:12:40
Autres entêtes
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In article <
vqgc0o$k2b$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Dan Cross <
cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
In article <m30ve0FnaglU2@mid.individual.net>,
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 13:06:38 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:
>
DEC in the 80s and 90s had a very forward-looking vision of distributed
computing; sadly they botched it on the business side.
>
Their entry into the PC business certainly was ill-conceived.
>
I think that was part of their failure. While the _vision_ was
good, it was only _their_ vision. You either did things the DEC
way or not at all.
>
- Dan C.
>
I remember doing a CSCI graphics project on DEC Rainbows. The whole
"we won't pay for two floppy drive arms" thing just felt kind of
cheap. OTOH, Turbo Pascal for the Rainbow on CPM/86 was a decent
development environment.
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