[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[Michael Kraemer]

Neil Rieck schrieb:
> On Aug 9, 5:47 pm, seasoned_geek <rol... at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
>>We can only hope they bring someone in who actually understands what
>>they have.
>>
>>Maybe we can petition for them to bring in Ken Olsen?
> 
> 
> Now this is the best thing I've seen suggested in the newsgroup in a
> long time. Why Olsen? He ran DEC from 1956 to 1992

... and into the ground.

> and only posted two
> quarterly losses.

after which he was ousted and left Palmer the mess
that finally killed DEC.

> How many companies can make this claim today?

What claim? DEC wrote a lot of red ink in the 1990s.

> 
> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html