[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Kevin Loch]

Both companies make pretty good x86 servers too.  Actually the part I
find
revolting is that the people who make HP unices (and HP/SUX) would buy
compaq/digital.

KL

Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 09:09, Kevin Loch wrote:
> > Suck.
> >
> > This is like Miracle Whip buying Sun.
> 
> How do you figure?  Compaq's Alpha stuff was all developed before they
> purchased Digital, that's not their doing.  Both companies make
> piss-poor desktop PC systems.  They've both sold all of their CPU design
> people to Intel, because Intel is a -manufacturing- company, and not a
> CPU design company.
>         Greg
> 
> P.S.  Sorry, should have bundled all three into one reply, but I missed
> this one on the first run.
> 
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