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From: fostel@ncsu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: RE:DEC Marketing Strategy
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Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 10:29:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  3 10:29:23 1983
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    All this vile critcism of DEC!  Blasphemy if you ask me. (Yeah no one
    did.)  If you look at history, DEC is simply acting as they always have.
    Did the PDP-11 originally come with lots of neat software and a stunning
    OS?  The PDP-10?  Even VAX, (apologies to VMS lovers) did not come complete
    with what we now use on it.  By and large, DEC builds iron, and it is
    usually a good high carbon variety and we buy it and then do something
    with it.  Can you name another micro manufacturer who released their new
    machine complete with enviable software existing?  Have DEC machines ever
    had the same zzzzzip as others?  E.g. PDP-10 vs S/370, or VAX/780 vs
    almost any other "super-mini".  Well, were we just stupid all those years
    getting stuff from DEC?

    Someone said it was ludicrous that DEC had O-N-L-Y 10 megs of hard disk.
    Wish I had that on my own system -- of recent vintage.  What does seem
    a bit silly to me is that they did not use the 11/70 chips I keep hereing
    about. But maybe they are not up to snuff yet.  Also seems strange that
    all the PDP-11 software is not on the machine.  Maybe it will be soon.

    Recall, that DEC has never been an eager beaver as far as trying to
    capture and corner markets.  They just keep on keeping on with modest
    goals and enviable stability.  Do you really want to see them dragged
    the hurley-burley with all the others?  (And by the way, seems a lot of
    folks are willing to buy new micros that until a lot of recent effort
    had ZERO software.)  Your expectations are too high too soon.
    ----GaryFostel----