[Info-vax] Encrypted TCP/IP network printserver spooled printing for OpenVMS (secure-IPP?)

[Scott Dorsey]

Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>Apple is one of the most heavily invested companies around.   DEC was 
>once invested in creating new interconnects and new technology.  VAX, 
>Ethernet, DECtalk, DECnet, etc.  Apple is large enough and with a sales 
>volume and revenues which allows them to design and build and ship 
>products at a scale that the folks at DEC could only dream of, too.  
>The Apple Arm cores, the T-series security chips, the use of seL4, 
>then-new connectors such as lightning (and which still works better 
>than the standardized USB-C), and software integration and frameworks, 
>too.  DEC had a history in most or all of those same areas.  Where DEC 
>differed then from Apple now was in user interface design skills and in 
>the ability to clearly communicate and to stay on message; DEC didn't 
>do so well in those areas in later years.

This is true.  The thing is, Apple wants to sell systems to end-users 
directly, onsie-twosie.  They don't want to deal with big corporate
customers and so they don't build systems for big corporate customers.
They find a niche where they can do well, they make systems for it, and
they don't try and compete across the board with a full range of systems
that do everything the way DEC did.

Apple doesn't sell servers like the X-Serve anymore.  They don't sell 
machines with serial ports.  They don't sell lots of things.  Because
those things don't fit their business model.
--scott

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