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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 03:02:48 -0000 (UTC)
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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.