From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 17 04:21:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA23540 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 04:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA23533 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 04:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (fh-ppp31.monmouth.com [205.164.221.63]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA19459; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 07:18:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id HAA01589 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Sun, 17 Aug 1997 07:21:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199708171121.HAA01589@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: Re: speed test In-Reply-To: <199708161129.HAA27288@hda.hda.com> from Peter Dufault at "Aug 16, 97 07:29:54 am" To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 07:21:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Alpha seems like the most safe bet at the moment, > > because they're way faster than Intel at the time. > > (press fingers to forehead and close eyes) "When Dec is purchased > by Microsoft early next year to become their service and system > integration division that will be the end of the Alpha". ("Solution > providers? We don't need no stinkin' solution providers (*kick* to > the temple)") Nooooo!!!! > > Microsoft will then spin off the hardware side of DEC to wither > and die, so as not to worry all the companies killing each other > to be Microsoft's low margin hardware division. Actually, Palmer's pretty close to reducing DEC to a semiconductor supplier. Microsoft could finish the job... How many Microsoft shares would I get in the stock deal for 1 DEC share? (I pretty much agree that this COULD happen if Microsoft wasn't afraid of the FTC and govt watchdogs...) Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.