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On 3/7/25 2:23 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 13:06:38 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:
> 
>> DEC in the 80s and 90s had a very forward-looking vision of distributed
>> computing; sadly they botched it on the business side.
> 
> Their entry into the PC business certainly was ill-conceived.


   Well ... the times ... EVERYBODY had to have a PC .....

   Unfortunately the market was already saturated.

   BTW, that page on PLCs was very interesting.