[TUHS] Reaction to the 3B2 at Bell Labs

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 09:47:52 AEST 2022


On Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 6:23 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 06:00:38PM -0500, Marc Donner wrote:
> > remarkably reliable.  As near as I can tell, this was what ultimately put
> > DEC under ...
>
> Sun Microsystems has entered the chat...  They very much competed with
> DEC and ate their lunch.
>

I think ultimately DEC ate DEC's own lunch. They bet on re VAX 9000 and
that wasn't a wise gamble.

        - Dan C.
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