What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2042
You have a very exalted view of the overall importance of DEC as it was when you worked there to society at large, and in my view a rather naive view of the overall motives of top management there even before the VAX came along. Indeed, the VAX era wasn't the first time 36-bit systems were end at DEC, but that was before your time.
I am not a Democrat.
You seem to have a fixation with welfare, which is a bit odd coming from someone with a serious medical disability.
No, I don't. I understand very well how the exposure kiddies got to DEC computing in the 60s and 70s lead to this PC generation. The first task was...
Look at Dubya. He owns a freaking plantation in Crawford.
I disagree entirely with this. My first exposure to computers, long before I got my hands on a KL-10, was using cards...
much hand waving "It's very simple, see? You work at WalMart for minimum wage and no benefits with forced unpaid overtime after you're retrained from your former job as a OS developer, and I get rich. Next question."
Yeah, tell that to the "owner-investors" at Enron.
Those are the rules of people who have figured out that they can screw America out of everything we worked to create and build by simply relocating their headquarters out of reach of our laws.
The Dempublicans and the Republicrats are the same, and they're sucking the life out of the American economy by using it as a giant credit card.
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2043
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