[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Michael Kraemer]

Neil Rieck schrieb:
> On Nov 7, 3:58 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
>>
>>Only if one presumes that DEC actually wanted to win the lawsuit.
>>It is more likely that DEC simply wanted to put some
>>pressure on intel so they could get rid of Alpha.
>> From this point of view DEC actually succeeded.
> 
> 
> Not sure here if you are interchanging the names "DEC" and "Compaq" on
> purpose or not. 

Alpha was sold to intel in 1997, so still DEC/Palmer were in charge.

> I never for a moment thought DEC (pre Palmer) wanted
> to get rid of Alpha. 

How could they, Alpha was announced the same year
Palmer took over.

> I had lots of personal contact with DEC between
> 1978 through to 1993 and can tell you that this company exuded "a
> passion for computing" which was infectious. However, I was working in
> Maynard Massachusetts in April-1993 and can tell you that "DEC felt
> different" (BTW, Palmer replaced Olsen in 1992).

Because they were already in deep sh**?

> Now if you were referring to DEC after Olsen, it is anyone's guess
> what was going on at DEC. I'll tell you one thing, Robert Palmer did
> not have a passion for computing that was anywhere close to that of
> Ken Olsen.

The same could be said for most other IT companies in the 1990s
when compared to the decades before.
SGI and old HP being sad examples.