Re: Thoughts on the book: DEC is dead, long live DEC

In article <1157625228.266480.263480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Andrew" <andrew_harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

However there is a difference here, no other vendor charged for the
basic networking software required to link two or more systems from
different vendors together except DEC, the norm for the rest of the
industry was that this was part of the base platform.

So most of the computers I've used in my life don't exist? A great
many of them didn't have any networking at all. Many of them still
don't. Can't use it, don't want it, don't want to pay for it.

There goes Andrew again, with his blinders on. Guess who's logo is
on the blinders?
.