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