From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!mel Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: DEC pro-350 (when a PC is not a PC ?) Article-I.D.: houxm.328 Posted: Fri Feb 11 08:38:16 1983 Received: Sat Feb 12 02:22:42 1983 Unless my ears were playing tricks on me, I heard a DEC sales type announce UNIX for the pro at the UNICOM general session. Weren't there others there who heard that, too? As to the DEC push of the PC as "an END-USER application machine" -- that certainly is true (they didn't even supply a CP/M manual with my Rainbow). But isn't this a bunch of hogwash? "Personal Computer"? How can it be "personal" if you have no control over it? How can you call it a "computer" if you can't program it? DEC should call them "CPR"s (Canned Program Runners", and let them die on the market, because who would want one of those? I haven't ever seen a "Canned Program" that didn't need some tweaking to make it work in the "end-user" environment; with the DEC PC, the "canned mess" you bought, is the "canned mess" you will have to live with. Mel Haas , houxm!mel