[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-11-22 13.42, Neil Rieck wrote:
[...]
> While it it true that Jobs was the marketing guru, there wouldn't have
> been anything to market without the creative genius of Wozniak. Anyone
> remember the 7-chip floppy disk controller card? Equivalent cards from
> companies like DEC required anywhere between 40 and 70 chips.

Well, we could have a fun argument about "equivalent" here...
Apple designed for cheap. DEC did not. DEC did things like DMA. Apple 
never heard of the concept.
DEC had a general bus. I'm not sure what I'd call the Apple II, but 
saying it had a bus is being rather generous...

And we could go on... :-)

	Johnny