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Subject: Re: Xerox 9700
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From: Brian Reid 

> "At heart, Xerox is still a photocopier company; they're trying to change,
>	but it's difficult and slow."  -- Butler Lampson
>
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

Allow me to point out that Butler Lampson now works for DEC, which is a
VMS company instead of a copier company. As nearly as I can tell from
my vantage point at Stanford, Xerox is no longer trying to change, and
in fact they are regressing back into being a copier company.....
[go ahead, Xerox folks on this mailing list, flame me out.....]