Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : cross (at) *nospam* spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 08. Mar 2025, 04:02:48
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Organisation : PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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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.
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