[Info-vax] Ken Olsen

[Simon Clubley]

On 2011-02-10, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 3:33 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> The "world at large" simply does not care!  There are almost seven
>> billion people out there, most of whom have never heard of Ken Olsen
>> and/or Digital Equipment Corporation.
>>

That has not stopped a wide range of organisations paying public tribute
to him and his legacy and HP should be among them.

>> Ken's legacy will, sooner or later, touch just about everyone even if
>> they know it not!
>
> You may think the world at large simply does not care, you may well be
> right, but I nearly fell over when Google News told me that UK alleged

For the un-initiated, "alleged" is right. :-)

Think of a newspaper version of Fox News, selling it's papers by scaring
people.

> newspaper the Daily Mail had some coverage. OK they spelled the name
> Olsden a couple of times as well as Olsen a few times, but actually it
> was a half decent writeup given the usual celebrity-obsessed
> journalists and readers at the Mail:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1354951/Ken-Olsen-Computer-pioneer-dies-aged-84.html
>

Ok, I've read it and now I've seen everything. A nice and informative article
on computer history from the Daily Mail - perhaps this is one of the signs
of the world ending which the religious types keep going on about. :-)

Thanks for posting the link.

Simon.

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