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| Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to gcalliet |
| Re: computer science and the stone age |
| 15 Feb 26 23:46:32 |
From: ldo@nz.invalid On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:15:14 +0100, gcalliet wrote: > Le 15/02/2026 à 17:43, Stephen Hoffman a écrit : >> >> DEC sought to provide a degree of ABI and API stability, which — >> *looks around* — clearly wasn't a particularly viable business >> model. >> > Did DEC failed because of that? DEC failed in spite of that, was I think the point. > And yes one part of the problem is purely economic. What happens > when you're not exactly in the economic mainstream?... DEC was at one time the second-largest computer vendor in the world. If that’s not “in the economic mainstream”, then I for one don’t know what is ... --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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