[256] in DCNS Development
Re: Fwd: acquiring the proper hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Sat Oct 10 06:15:19 1992
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: developers@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Oct 92 15:38:49 EDT."
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 06:14:21 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
Seems like "The Market" knows something we should pay attention to. To
wit: that Suns are desirable, and that HP's are useful as doorstops!?
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 14:03:48 EDT
From: rehmi@milk.ftp.com (E. Rehmi Post)
Message-Id: <9210091803.AA01420@milk.ftp.com>
To: qotd@ghoti.LCS.MIT.EDU
Subject: acquiring the proper hardware
Sun is chuckling over a recent robbery in Silicon Valley:
seems the thieves broke into a place and ripped off five Sun
workstations, bypassing the new HP 700s and using a 705 as a
door stop.
from a recent issue of _Unigram_ (whatever that is...)
among my clients on wall street, sun
is thought to be dead: losing the mips
race, not as scalable as advertised,
and relentlessly unwilling to recognize
any standard they didn't invent. i know
places that are moving out of the sun
market at flank speed.
and, just for analogy, didn't we have
a string of thefts at athena about 1988
where all the pc's were stolen and the
workstations left behind? as i recall,
you and i agreed that this was a good
thing.
--dan
