[Info-vax] Itanic is a dead end : IBM

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Fri May 27 14:35:46 EDT 2011


JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

(snip)
> Digital started off as a scientific company (come to think of it, 
> so did HP).

But then HP split of the scientific instruments side to Agilent.

Now, if they were still into scientific computing then I am
not sure which side that would have gone to.  They used to do
enough scientific computing to support the instruments.

Also, the scientific calculator market pretty much started with HP.

-- glen



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