From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,985762be6fa32f22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!63.223.4.70!c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40E153D7.6020100@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image References: <2k06c5F16ql15U2@uni-berlin.de> <40DC0CA6.5040704@noplace.com> <06OtmLncSDdl@eisner.encompasserve.org> <40DDDBE0.1080207@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:35:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.2.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1088508936 209.165.2.82 (Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:35:36 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:35:36 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1996 Date: 2004-06-29T11:35:36+00:00 List-Id: 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. > > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================