[14856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Compaq to buy DEC for 9.6 billion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Adelson)
Tue Jan 27 15:23:01 1998
From: Jay Adelson <adelson@pa.dec.com>
To: jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Jay R. Ashworth)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:56:16 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980127134951.02128@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> from "Jay R. Ashworth" at "Jan 27, 98 01:49:51 pm"
Such assurances have come to us DEC employees already from the executives
you speak of. I can't say "don't worry," but I can say we (Research and
Advanced Development) are specifically of great interest to Compaq.
Anyway, speculation will always be speculation, we'll have to wait and see.
-Jay
> On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 08:34:52AM -0800, Jay Adelson wrote:
> > Actually, we *were* planning on porting it to TI-99, but now with your idea...
>
> <ROAR>
>
> But seriously, folks; DEC has, for all it's faults, always been
> observed to have a soft spot for the net. Compaq has no such failings.
> This will be a subect of _great_ interest, and "don't worry"'s will
> have to come from executives with sufficient rank to make them stick.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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