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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Al Kossow    |
|    Re: VAX    |
|    05 Aug 25 05:37:22    |
      XPost: alt.folklore.computers       From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 03:32:52 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:              > MIPS products came out of DECWRL (the research group started to build       > Titan) and were stopgaps until the "real" architecture came out       > (Cutler's out of DECWest)       > I don't think it ever got much love out of DEC corporate and were just       > done so DEC didn't completely get their lunch eaten in the Unix       > workstation market.              There were many in high places at DEC who didn’t like Unix at all. Dave       Cutler was one of them, and I think Ken Olsen, right at the top, as well.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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