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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Killer Micros
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Date: 26 Nov 89 10:38:21 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Nov 25 16:03:00 1989




>Killer Micros will make headway, but it will be slow headway.  It's taken
>DEC 20 years to go from supplying well-regarded small scientific
>computers (e.g. PDP-8's) to *starting* to supply corporate data centers,
>and I suspect Killer Micros face the same kind of timescale.

This must show something about the mentality of corporate
data centers. 

DEC is now trying to sell VAX's to those folks. The first VAX, and
the first version or two of VMS were very nice. Later ones keep
getting worse and worse - harder to use, slower (the software is slower),
and MUCH less cost effective relative to the rest of the marketplace.
We used to like DEC around here, but now their salesperson gets
laughed out of the room!

You are implying that corporate data centers will buy Killer Micros
just as they are replaced for everybody else by something better!

Doug McDonald