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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 7 Mar 2025 19:23:44 GMT
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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.