Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: Xerox 9700 Message-ID: <227@uw-beaver> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 00:46:11 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.227 Posted: Mon Dec 17 00:46:11 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 07:14:03 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 13 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.....]