16 Jan
2019
16 Jan
'19
8:51 p.m.
On 1/16/19 9:24 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
Anyway, the point is that they did have a footprint in
the academic market.
I suspect their lack of success had more to do with them as a company and
their foibles in the market than anything else.
We (CWRU) got a donated MV10000 from DG in the mid-80s. It was pretty
easy to get an account on it, as opposed to the "official" VAX, but
everyone hated working on it. It was just painful, especially if you
tried to get free software working.
DG tried, but, at least in our case, they just weren't up to it.
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/