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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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In article <vqgc0o$k2b$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>In article <m30ve0FnaglU2@mid.individual.net>,
>rbowman  <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 13:06:38 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:
>>
>>> DEC in the 80s and 90s had a very forward-looking vision of distributed
>>> computing; sadly they botched it on the business side.
>>
>>Their entry into the PC business certainly was ill-conceived.
>
>I think that was part of their failure.  While the _vision_ was
>good, it was only _their_ vision.  You either did things the DEC
>way or not at all.
>
>	- Dan C.
>

I remember doing a CSCI graphics project on DEC Rainbows.  The whole
"we won't pay for two floppy drive arms" thing just felt kind of
cheap.  OTOH, Turbo Pascal for the Rainbow on CPM/86 was a decent
development environment.
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