[rescue] DECstation 5000h

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jul 16 10:01:12 CDT 2002


On July 16, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > It was never the engineers that wanted to get into bed with
> > Microsoft.  The person that really wanted to marry MS was
> > GQ Palmer.
> 
> Palmer.  Ugh.  I remember he'd keep selling off units of DEC
> and people would say "You're breaking chunks off the company
> so someone can buy it!  AIGH!"  And he'd reassure everyone
> "No.  No.  I'm just trying to sell off money-losing units
> to regain profitiability".  Lather.  Rinse.  Repeat.
> 
> Then announced the Compaq buyout.
> 
> Suits.

  Yup...A lying, thieving suit just like the rest of them.  When will it
end?

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
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