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

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In article <d4786543-cfe1-493a-bb8b-b7cf29e242ee at t2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>On Nov 9, 1:20=A0pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <d75d3d4b-acf8-4b92-a8ba-1d1c21386... at v36g2000yqv.googlegroups=
>..com>, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>> {...snip...}
>>
>> >"Until Microsoft, I though DEC had the greatest engineering
>> >organization, but Microsoft is substantially better."
>>
>> What blaspheming fuckwit authored that statement? =A0Albeit non-actionabl=
>e,
>> it is absolutely reprehensible to make libelous and defamatory statements
>> about the dead. =A0
>>
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>> =A0 "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
>
>Apologies for the unintended effects on anybody's blood pressure.
>
>The author of that particular statement is a name that will be
>somewhat known round here: Gordon Bell. I sort of assumed it would
>have been obvious from NSR's context, but obviously I assumed wrong,
>sorry.
>
>Mr Bell joined Microsoft's Bay Area Research Centre in 1995:
>http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/gbell/
>
>Personally I can't see any basis for the claim unless perhaps he's
>talking about quality of buildings and facilities and other such staff-
>only stuff. From a customer/user/developer point of view there was
>absolutely no comparison in terms of quality of people and quality of
>end product, neither then (1995, when I was using both NT for my stuff
>and Windows for Playgroups for the corporate stuff) nor at any time
>since when I've been looking (which is most of the time).

Gordon Bell, father of my moniker namesake?  Sheesh.  What the hell
do they put in that Micro$loth Kool-aid that could cause such brain
damage?  Even a quicksilver and wormwood cocktail couldn't produce 
that level of brain damage.

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