[Info-vax] Ken Olsen

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/9/2011 7:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2011-02-09, Paul Sture<paul.nospam at sture.ch>  wrote:
>>
>> LOL!
>>
>> R.I.P. Ken.
>>
>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/02/08/dec_founder_olsen_dead/
>>
>
> Have HP even mentioned his death yet ?
>
> I don't see anything on the HP news page.
>
> This is pretty poor on the part of HP. Given the coverage this is getting
> elsewhere, HP should have been aware of this by now, even if they had lost
> all prior memory of who Ken Olsen is.
>
> Simon.
>

Is there any evidence the HP knows who Ken Olson was???  IIRC it was 
Compaq that bought DEC.  HP's acquisition of Compaq came a year or two 
later.