From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11 questions
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:11:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5bbed44d050e88257d7306d78edb5e5.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160124183037.9F0C218C0A8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> >> It seems though that there should have been a PDP-11 based desktop
>
> > Because DEC were a bunch of losers.
>
>
> Why not? I put it down to corporate cultural intertia - ironically, the
> same
> thing that allowed DEC to eat so much of IBM's lunch.
>
Also see the book "The Innovator's Dilemma". I takes a very insightful
look at why the leader of one generation of technology is rarely the
leader of the next. In part, it's because customers, for the most part,
want more of the same and cheaper -- the interesting new niches get
overlooked by the current big guys.
Besides, the book is worth reading for a hilarious picture of how the
steam shovel makers tried to make a backhoe to compete with the hydraulic
technology that was eating their lunch...
Steve
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2016-01-24 18:30 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-24 18:36 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-24 21:10 ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 0:11 ` scj [this message]
2016-01-25 0:36 ` Clem cole
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2016-01-26 20:07 Doug McIlroy
2016-01-26 20:44 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-26 19:36 Doug McIlroy
2016-01-26 19:59 ` Warren Toomey
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2016-01-25 3:07 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 3:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 12:54 ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 13:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 13:49 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 16:00 ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 16:17 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 16:43 ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 1:11 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-25 1:30 ` Clem cole
2016-01-24 22:40 Norman Wilson
2016-01-25 1:55 ` David Ritchie
2016-01-25 1:59 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-25 2:14 ` Clem cole
2016-01-25 11:29 ` Tony Finch
2016-01-25 13:25 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-25 16:18 ` Pete Turnbull
2016-01-25 19:37 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-24 22:40 Norman Wilson
2016-01-25 0:23 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-24 18:56 Noel Chiappa
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2016-01-24 18:34 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-24 18:01 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-24 17:37 Mark Longridge
2016-01-24 18:49 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-25 3:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-25 5:32 ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-25 12:27 ` Clem cole
2016-01-25 13:38 ` Lawrence Stewart
2016-01-25 14:15 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-26 19:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-26 20:41 ` Clem Cole
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