Re: Improving Ada's Image

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I remember seeing them too - some of our DEC support guys had them. Not 
a bad idea, but if you want it to get out there and snag some 
significant amount of the market, you can't price them out of reach of 
the average consumer. Even with business sales, you can't tell the 
purchasing guy "Sure, it costs twice as much as a PC laptop, but at 
least it doesn't have any popular software packages running on it..."

I don't know if DEC tried to make the laptops generally available or at 
what price point, but their weakness was never getting consumer-level 
stuff out at a competitive price and backing it up with enough 
applications. I know *I* couldn't afford to buy their stuff and if I 
did, I had doubts about being able to get apps similar to what I have 
sitting on my desktop today. Too bad. They really had a wonderful OS to 
build on and the Alpha architecture was pretty spiffy technology.

MDC


Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> 
> I have a brother-in-law who, while he worked at DEC, had an Alpha-based
> laptop that ran VMS. I always wondered why this sort of platform was not
> more heavily promoted by DEC.
> 
> 


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