Re: DEC deal with Bush

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From: levy
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:17

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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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