Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian Reid wrote: > > >> And...weren't you with DEC and worked on AltaVista? Which, IMO, was a >> superb "thing"...don't know quite what to call it, as it wasn't a >> product, >> had no FRUs... > > > Yes. I never had operational responsibility for Alta Vista, but I was > one of the key players in starting it and keeping it running. You will > note that DEC went out of business in June 1999; one reason is that it > never knew how to adapt to new things such as Alta Vista. Imagine > clinging to old-fashioned engineering such as was done in the previous > century... And, of course, Ken Olsen truly believed it when he said that the PC was "snake oil". :-) - -- Rolfe Tessem Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html