[Info-vax] RealWorldTech on Poulson

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Tue Jul 5 07:19:58 EDT 2011


In article <iutb25$cb9$1 at solani.org>,
 Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:

> JF Mezei schrieb:
> > 
> > The problem is that by the time this came out, Digital shouldn't have
> > been competiting against dying workstations, it should have competed
> > against the PC.
> > 
> 
> They did - and failed.
> Over here Alpha/NT "PC"s were offered in large
> retail stores.

Wasn't OS/2 also popular in Germany?

ISTR Escom (who briefly had a chain of stores in the UK) were actively 
promoting OS/2 systems (circa 1995).

<http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/escomhist.html>

-- 
Paul Sture



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