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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: VMS on ALPHA PC's
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:45:16 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
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- In article <1k1javINNvb@sol.tis.com>, mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
- >>I think DEC is missing market share waiting for NT. Get the boxes out running
- >>VMS and SoftPC now.
- >
- > If the price were right, they'd make a nice X terminal or UNIX
- >workstation, too. Waiting for NT is a strategic blunder.
- >
- >mjr.
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- Count me in for three. It makes no sense (other than intentional marketing BS)
- to limit the low-end machine to NT and only NT.
-
- Digital once again is making choices for the end-user, rather than the end user
- make his/her own choices.
-
-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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