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Article #34Re: FAQ
From: Bob Pasker
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 23:27
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 23:27
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jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes: > and DEC was trying to sell something relatively inexpensive that > didn't need such support facilities. DEC chose to deal with these > steriotypes by avoiding the term "computer" entirely in their > sales efforts. one nit to pick: olson et al chose not to call their machines "computers" because the investors would have then refused to buy in. ostensibly, they felt that the cmputer field would be less lucrative than makeing modules, like the "flip-chip." could be urban legend, could be truth, but its at least plausible. someone call ken and ask him. -- --- bob pasker ---- rbp@netcom.com
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp8 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!rock!stanford.edu!ames!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!rbp From: rbp@netcom.com (Bob Pasker) Subject: Re: FAQ Message-ID: <1992Oct2.232759.21488@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Oct2.175013.25097@news.uiowa.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:27:59 GMT Lines: 18