[Info-vax] OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/25/2012 9:30 AM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
> On 5/25/2012 6:50 AM, MG wrote:
>> DEC never had to 'rely' on its
>> marketing. DEC also never obsessed with invading one's privacy.
>>
>> I find it almost insulting how you compare a pushy, hipster, company
>> and 'brand' like Google with DEC, which was almost a polar opposite
>> of it.
>
> Times were different then. I wonder what DEC would be like today had it
> survived? Would it be the same as HP is today? One would think not, but
> to survive, it might have had to change....
>
> Hunter

There is no question that DEC would have to change!  DEC failed to 
change and is now a fond memory.  R.I.P. Digital Equipment Corp.