XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Dan Cross  schrieb:   
   > In article <106uqej$36gll$3@dont-email.me>,   
   > Thomas Koenig   wrote:   
   >>Peter Flass  schrieb:   
   >>   
   >>> The support issues alone were killers. Think about the   
   >>> Orange/Grey/(Blue?) Wall of VAX documentation, and then look at the   
   >>> five-page flimsy you got with a micro. The customers were willing to   
   >>> accept cr*p from a small startup, but wouldn't put up with it from IBM   
   >>> or DEC.   
   >>   
   >>Using UNIX faced stiff competition from AT&T's internal IT people,   
   >>who wanted to run DEC's operating systems on all PDP-11 within   
   >>the company (basically, they wanted to kill UNIX).  They pointed   
   >>towads the large amout of documentation that DEC provided, compared   
   >>to the low amount of UNIX, as proof of superiority.  The UNIX people   
   >>saw it differently...   
   >   
   > I've never heard this before, and I do not believe that it is   
   > true.  Do you have a source?   
      
   Hmm... I _think_ it was on a talk given by the UNIX people,   
   but I may be misremembering.   
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