What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2106

I think you need a crowbar. The kid is not understanding this point.

DEC didn't tell their customers how to use their gear after they bought it. It was their gear. They could have chopped it up into itty bitty pieces if they wanted. The poster seems to think that we were in the PCibreasts biz where the buyer of the hardware could only use it as shipped.

Management levels did; not usually the people who did the work making stuff. There were a couple of working people who were exceptions to this rule.

spit. The f***ing idiot changed the color to red from blue because blue was a KO color.

DEC was schizoid w.r.t. this. We kept getting told that we were a huge cost drain to the company. JMF's response was, OK, then make us a division and let us sink or swim on our own. Nope. That would have removed the cash flow coming in. Something that Bell, (and I trace this directly to him), could not stomach was the notion that the PDP-10 sold the small computers. There was a study done that showed 60-70% (I cannot recall the exact number but it was in that range) of our small biz had some tie to an LCG system. IIRC, the study was done around 1978, maybe 1979. It makes sense if you think about it. Once somebody, like a university, bought a PDP-10 and they had exposure to our maintenance and field service, they would naturally go to the manufacturer. The same field service and software people were around and one didn't have to pay and retame a whole new set of specialists.

There was no way that the cash cow was going to be cut off.

BAH