[rescue] Current collections...

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Scott Newell <newell at cei.net>
> Date: 2004/04/07 Wed PM 08:06:53 GMT
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Current collections...
> 

> Didn't, or don't?  I know that they had ASIC designers
> on staff before they acquired DEC.  Still do, from what
> I hear...

>From my litte exp. with Compaq hardware, Compaq had a tradition of "improving" nearly everything they did - some of it made sense, some of it was silly (how many kinds of drive brackets does one company need?!)...

Compaq was the "Not Exactly" hardware company, IMHO - odd, given their roots as the first company to clean room reverse engineer the IBM PC BIOS for better compatibility...