PowerHouse 7.10G on OVMS 7.2

[Jon Hawks]

Thanks for clearing that up Phil.

The response I previously sent, had to do with an email
in which I briefly mentioned that I was around, in the
days that DEC was being downsized and parts were being
sold off.  

I had no intention of alluding to why Compaq wanted
DEC.  I only believe they salvaged it.

--- "Taber, Phil" <prta@lubrizol.com> wrote:
> It seems to me there were 2 things Compaq was after
> in the buy out.  1) the
> international support capabilities with contracts in
> place with major
> international customers.  2) 64 bit Alpha server
> technology.  With Intel
> continuing to slip in it's ability to develop and
> produce a 64 bit chip and
> Alpha available and proven, Compaq now has control
> over a significant
> technology in a key strategic market.
> 
> 
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	Jon Hawks
> [SMTP:hawksj%yahoo.com@interlockp.lubrizol.com]
> 	Sent:	Wednesday, March 24, 1999 10:56 AM
> 	To:	Hamilton, Allison; 'PowerHouse List'; 'Richard
> Witkopp'
> 	Subject:	RE: PowerHouse 7.10G on OVMS 7.2
> 
> 	To be clear on my personal view, again, DEC
> executives
> 	sold off major portions of the company, the VP of
> 	Technology Development went to Microsoft and the
CEO
> 	finally cut off his own head.  Compaq did salvage
> the
> 	corpse.
> 
> 	--- "Hamilton, Allison"
> <Allison.Hamilton@Cognos.COM>
> 	wrote:
> 	> > Ugh! I will NEVER get used to this!  :-)
> 	> > 
> 	> Amen to that!  As well as being a staunch DIGITAL
> 	VMS
> 	> (I don't know if I can
> 	> ever call it COMPAQ VMS!) user, my husband was
one
> 	of
> 	> those who vanished
> 	> from the force when Compaq bought out DEC.  And,
I
> 	> disagree with Jon Hawks
> 	> comment that "Compaq has saved this great little
> 	> company.".  Our experience
> 	> is that they threw away many of the good parts of
> 	DEC
> 	> (and I don't mean sold
> 	> off, I mean just stopped!)  All it seems that
they
> 	> really wanted was the
> 	> Support groups... sigh.  There's not much of DEC
> 	left
> 	> in Compaq.
> 	> Allison Hamilton
> 	> 
> 	> > ----------
> 	> > From: 	Richard Witkopp[SMTP:witkopp@idt.com]
> 	> > Sent: 	Friday, March 19, 1999 12:54 PM
> 	> > To: 	'PowerHouse List'
> 	> > Subject: 	RE: PowerHouse 7.10G on OVMS 7.2
> 	> > 
> 	> > > We have not tested on OpenVMS 7.2 as yet, but
> we
> 	> have 
> 	> > > customers who are
> 	> > > running it and Compaq has made statements
> about
> 	> upward 
> 	> >                  ^^^^^^
> 	> > Ugh! I will NEVER get used to this!  :-)
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