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- From: levy@levy.fnal.gov
- Subject: Re: DEC deal with Bush
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.111756.1@levy.fnal.gov>
- Sender: daemon@linac.fnal.gov (The Background Man)
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- Organization: Fermilab Computing Division
- References: <1992Jul23.171737.7106@PA.dec.com> <1992Jul24.082147.20043@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:17:56 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- In article <1992Jul24.082147.20043@panix.com>, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul23.171737.7106@PA.dec.com> mok@fortsc.enet.dec.com (Charles Mok) writes:
- >>
- >>In article <STRANGE.92Jul23171445@hang.dec.com>, strange@zk3.dec.com (Steve Strange) writes...
- >>....rumor deleted
- >
- >>How can anyone believe some rumor as silly as that?
- >>
- >>1. Bush is not as dumb as that.
- >
- > Most likely true.
- >
- >>2. DEC is definitely not as important as that.
- >
- > Well, further big layoffs at DEC would probably make Page 1 of the WSJ.
- > Probably not _that_ important, but up there. Now if it were IBM... :-(
- >
- >>3. No government contract is worth risking the integrity of the company like
- >> that. Not for this company.
- >
- > I'm not very sure DEC has any integrity left. What's there to risk? First
- > the whole Jupiter mess, and then the bit about OSF/1 on MIPS. Oh, so sorry.
- > I guess in the latter case, promises were simply _about_ to be broken. On the
- > other hand, maybe we were all just being jerked around to see what kind of
- > response there'd be.
- >
- > I think I'd probably still buy hardware from DEC, if I could afford to, in any
- > of my capacities. Why? Because Alpha looks like a very nice architecture. On
- > the other hand, any talk of integrity is right out. I worked at DEC. I won't
- > trust them any further than I can throw a 2060.
- >>
- >>Charles
- >>
- >>
- >>---
- >>Charles Mok/Digital Equipment Corporation
- >>Santa Clara Commercial Account Group, Santa Clara, California
- >>INTERNET: mok@fortsc.enet.dec.com UUCP: ....!decwrl!fortsc.dec.enet.com!mok
- >>---
- >
- >
- > --
- > Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM
- >
- > "Better be careful there. John might decide to start taking legal action
- > against people who refuse to buy stuff from him." --Kevin McBride
-
- I missed the original post. Could someone please e-mail it to me?
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