[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

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

(snip)

> Of course, Digital was always affraid that a new product would
> cannabalise an older/bigger one, so it would put epoxy into a Bi-Bus to
> castrate a machine to prevent it from competing against a more
> expensive one.

Someone I knew in the 1980's was using LSI-11's for embedded
systems until DEC stopped selling them to him.  It seems that
they thought he might compete with their sales of LSI-11 systems,
even though they weren't for embedded systems.

-- glen