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

[seasoned_geek]

On Aug 15, 9:54 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> 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

Palmer was the mess that finally killed DEC