[Info-vax] AltaVista background information

[Michael Kraemer]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply schrieb:

> Marketing is essential.  As the recent blast from the past indicates, 
> there was perhaps a real interest in using ALPHA from Apple. 

And who blew that deal, Olsen or Palmer?
Or was it Apple?

> Apple is 
> still around, of course, a master of marketing, 

They have products everybody wants anyway, so marketing is easy.