Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!zen!vic From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Desktop publishing systems? Message-ID: <1455@zen.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 12:19:18 GMT References: <2612@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <673@wilbur.unix.ETA.COM> <831@io.UUCP> <1431@zen.UUCP> <466@mmlai.UUCP>Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England Lines: 20 In article awm@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) writes: >HP have a marketing presence in the UK, there is often a full page >colour advert in the trade papers (Computing, Computer Weekly, etc.) and >often in the newspapers too (at least in the Grauniad). Yes but this is seldom anything to do with their workstations. Most of the adverts I see are for HP printers/plotters/instruments. When was the last time that you saw an ad. saying how wonderful Precision Architecture was? > there was no-one at the show who knew anything >about hp-ux (h-pux as someone once said). The guy who I talked to said >that they had just been at a CAD/CAM exhibition, where no-one had asked >them about Unix, so they didn't expect much hassle at the Unix show! Typical. HP just haven't a clue. The perfect opportunity to show off and they blow it! >Aled Morris vic