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| 3249.1 | ded not | MSDOA::POLE | | Fri Jul 15 1994 18:16 | 4 |
| yea i red the same thing??!!!
i'm sure ko is rollin' over in his grave evrytime he looks around
and reads the tabloids.but then again MAYBE NOT.??!!
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| 3249.2 | USA Today is not alone | ODIXIE::SEERNANI | | Fri Jul 15 1994 18:20 | 4 |
| Looks like some of the papers around the country got their story from
the same source. Some of the other notes talk about the same error in
local papers in Atlanta and Chicago.
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| 3249.3 | | CNTROL::DGAUTHIER | | Fri Jul 15 1994 18:31 | 3 |
| Just keep this in mind when you *read* that DEC is going to sell this
part of the business or close that mfg site or lost this much money or
whatever. If it sells, they'll print it.
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| 3249.4 | Ded? Red? | QUICKP::KEHOE | Mr. QuickPIC | Fri Jul 15 1994 18:36 | 2 |
| I'm amazed at how many people can't spell or punctuate sentences
properly.
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| 3249.5 | The grammatical abyss | IMTDEV::BRUNO | Father Gregory | Fri Jul 15 1994 18:53 | 8 |
| RE: <<< Note 3249.4 by QUICKP::KEHOE "Mr. QuickPIC" >>>
>> I'm amazed at how many people can't spell or punctuate sentences
>> properly.
I take it that you have not been participating in notes very long.
Greg
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| 3249.6 | Re. 5 | QUICKP::KEHOE | Mr. QuickPIC | Fri Jul 15 1994 19:10 | 3 |
| Only seven years or so.
Dan
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| 3249.7 | but he's enjoying new life | CARAFE::GOLDSTEIN | Global Village Idiot | Fri Jul 15 1994 20:58 | 3 |
| I wonder if Ken will outlive DEC/Digital.
Funny, our ex-ACO site doesn't look like a tomb.
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| 3249.8 | KO driving a new truck | DIODE::CROWELL | Jon Crowell | Sun Jul 17 1994 22:27 | 8 |
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His new company seems to have changed him. He zipped my me on Rt117
heading to his home in Lincoln, he was in a brand new Ford Explorer.
When he left DEC he was driving a junk truck. Is KO still on the BOD
of FORD?
Jon
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| 3249.9 | | LARVAE::JORDAN | Chris Jordan, UK S.E. PSC - Workgroup Solutions | Mon Jul 18 1994 07:44 | 5 |
| 3249.10 | Inglish? | BLKPUD::ROWEM | Frank Gamballi's Trousers! | Mon Jul 18 1994 09:14 | 6 |
| Hmmm....
Like color should really be colour
Disk disc etc, if you colonials are going to pervert the queens English
you might as well go all the way. Or should that be orl de whey?
Ha!
Matt.
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| 3249.12 | | FORTY2::ABRAHAMS | | Mon Jul 18 1994 10:11 | 2 |
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Shouldn't that be "the Queen's English"?
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| 3249.13 | | CCAD39::TAN | Kepten, Romulan Wessel Approaching | Mon Jul 18 1994 10:27 | 6 |
| >Shouldn't that be "the Queen's English"?
Only if he was about to say "we are not amused".
:)
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| 3249.14 | wur not wuz | GRANMA::JWOOD | | Mon Jul 18 1994 13:34 | 2 |
| Shouldn't that be, "Only if he 'were' about to say..." ya know,
subjunctive mood, et al. 8}
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| 3249.15 | | LEDDEV::CHAKMAKJIAN | Shadow Nakahar of Erebouni | Mon Jul 18 1994 13:38 | 33 |
|
July 18, 1994
(Reuters) Acton, Massachusetts - "Rumors of my death have been greatly
exaggerated," replied Kenneth Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation,
ousted in a management coup in 1992. Erroneously reported in USA today
last week, Olsen, now semi-retired, was responding to stop the flood of
mail being sent to his Lincoln, MA home addressed to his wife of 44 years,
Evaliisa Aulikki Olsen. "Please stop sending us mail," he stated in an
ipromptu press conference. When asked about the fortunes of his former
company, Olsen replied, "digital...do they make watches?"
:-) yes this is a joke...
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| 3249.16 | So ... Is Ken dead yet? ;^) | DEMON::PILGRM::BAHN | Curiouser and Curiouser ... | Mon Jul 18 1994 13:41 | 0 |
| 3249.17 | Whose English??? | SHRMSG::TURNER | | Mon Jul 18 1994 13:43 | 3 |
| Regarding .12
Should NOT that be the Queen's English?
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| 3249.18 | BTW: How's Barbie? | PHAROS::NORMAN | | Mon Jul 18 1994 13:50 | 2 |
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| 3249.19 | Christmas in July? | DEMON::PILGRM::BAHN | Curiouser and Curiouser ... | Mon Jul 18 1994 14:11 | 6 |
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>>> BTW: How's Barbie?
I saw a miniature copy of the original 1959 Barbie in a Hallmark
store yesterday. She's a Christmas Tree ornament. I guess they
want to warn those last-minute shoppers.
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| 3249.20 | Ken at former ACO now? | ASABET::WOODFORD | Jack Woodford, DTN 223-1489 | Mon Jul 18 1994 14:12 | 6 |
| Where is KO's new company? Is it Stow, Maynard, or Acton? What does
it do?
When I used to see him at the "house" next to PKO, he was driving a
Lincoln Town Car, not a "junk truck". This was in 1992. He's always had
Ford products.
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| 3249.21 | last reported sighting of KO at work | CARAFE::GOLDSTEIN | Global Village Idiot | Mon Jul 18 1994 16:10 | 7 |
| re:.20
Ken is a "consultant" (though I suspect major equity holder) in
Advanced Modular Systems ("Modular"), which is in the old ACO (Piper
Rd., Acton) building, and has a nice sign on Rt. 2. Modular's top
officers include Barry C. Goldstein (no relation :-) ) and Fernando
Colon-Osorio, both former top DEChies. They make mainframes (Intel CPU
in a BIG box) and desktop computers.
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| 3249.22 | | LEDDEV::CHAKMAKJIAN | Shadow Nakahar of Erebouni | Mon Jul 18 1994 16:54 | 4 |
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I've heard that the the Modular Big-Box is nicknamed "Coffin"
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| 3249.23 | | TEKVAX::KOPEC | I know what happens; I read the book. | Mon Jul 18 1994 18:08 | 7 |
| In fact, I just got a press release from Advanced Modular via Email a
coupler minutes ago..
They make and sell, among other things, VAXen.. (NVAX-based, I'm pretty
sure..)
...tom
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| 3249.24 | No press conferences | TOOK::MORRISON | Bob M. LKG1-3/A11 226-7570 | Tue Jul 19 1994 18:12 | 32 |
| > <<< Note 3249.15 by LEDDEV::CHAKMAKJIAN "Shadow Nakahar of Erebouni" >>>
>July 18, 1994
> (Reuters) Acton, Massachusetts - "Rumors of my death have been greatly
> "Please stop sending us mail," he stated in an
> ipromptu press conference.
This is where I knew it had to be a joke. K.O. would not have held a press
conference for something like this; he would have issued a press release.
:-) yes this is a joke...
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| 3249.25 | KO and OJ | MIMS::BRENNER_C | | Tue Jul 19 1994 20:54 | 8 |
|
KEN OLSEN'S DEATH ?? SOUNDS LIKE THE DISCOVERY OF THE "MASK" IN THE OJ
SIMPSON MURDER.
CAROL
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| 3249.26 | Advanced Modular | WHOS01::ELKIND | Steve Elkind, Digital Consulting @WHO | Wed Jul 20 1994 03:28 | 7 |
| According to this week's PC Week, they make boxes in the $100k-$200k
range that have BOTH Intel and VAX CPU's - the one running Netware
3.12, the other VMS 5.4 or 6.1 (your choice). They are intended,
supposedly, to give customers migrating over time from VAX/VMS a more
manageable HW environment, shared resources (storage, etc.; also
network connect via FDDI), built-in SW gateways between Novell's MHS
and VAXmail, etc. Alpha and Pentium processor boards are in the works.
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| 3249.27 | PC week article | STOWOA::FARHADI | | Wed Jul 20 1994 03:36 | 65 |
| The article in PC week, regarding Advance Modular.
============================================================================
SUBJECT: SERVERS BLEND INTEL, VAX CPUS
SOURCE: ZiffWire via First! by INDIVIDUAL, Inc.
DATE: July 15, 1994
INDEX: [8]
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PC Week via First! : A Massachusetts startup is combining Intel Corp. and
VAX processors in a line of modular servers that include integrated software
services aimed at easing VAX sites along the path to client/server
computing.
Advanced Modular Solutions Inc., founded last year by former Digital
Equipment Corp. executives and backed by DEC founder Kenneth Olsen, began
shipping this month a set of hardware and software building blocks running
on servers that combine processor technology. The Acton, Mass., firm shipped
its first products -- two Intel-based desktop systems and two file servers -
- last August.
The new high-end servers provide networking, E-mail, communications,
printing, and storage services for mixed VAX and PC environments.
"We'd be interested in a company that provides these pieces so we could
just purchase it instead of doing it ourselves, at least in the short term,"
said Ed Homko, systems analyst for Dr. Pepper Co./The Seven-Up Co. in
Dallas. "We're doing much of that in-house, but would like a more standard
way of doing it."
The MST 200, 300, and 400 models comprise a CISC-based VAX CPU running VMS
5.4 or 6.1 and an Intel 66MHz 486DX2 CPU running a preloaded version of
NetWare 3.12. The systems will support Pentium CPUs as well, according to
company officials.
The VAX and Intel servers are integrated via the company's high- speed
FDDI card.
"This allows Fortune 500 companies with a large installed base of VAX and
PC users to move to an integrated, disciplined environment like those in the
minicomputer and mainframe environment," said Ed Killeen, product manager
for the company's Intel-VAX program.
The systems include two key software components: the Modular X Window
Services and the Modular Messaging Client.
The messaging client lets users of LAN-based E-mail packages such as
Microsoft Mail communicate with DEC's proprietary OpenVMS/VAX Mail. This is
accomplished via a gateway and the Global Message Handling Service
capabilities built into NetWare, which resides on the Intel server.
The X Window module lets X Window System or Motif applications on the VAX
be accessed from the PC client.
The MST 200 provides up to 42G bytes of storage, while the MST 300 and 400
accommodate 63G and 70G bytes, respectively.
Available now, the servers are priced from $100,000 to $200,000, depending
on configuration, officials said. Server systems based on the PowerPC and
Alpha AXP chips will be available in the future, they added.
Paula Rooney, PC Week
[07-15-94 at 22:07 EDT, Copyright 1994, ZiffWire, File: c0715061.4zf]
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| 3249.28 | | FORTY2::ABRAHAMS | | Wed Jul 20 1994 08:26 | 12 |
| Regarding .17
No. Even the Queen doesn't talk like that. Normal, common or garden Queens say
"shouldn't" when the need arises. You might be confused by the recent surge
in Taylor's English, as championed by a former national football manager.
To him we attribute the immortal phrase:
"Do I not like that!"
This is not a question, but a statement. To be fully appreciated, the phrase
needs to be delivered in a Northern English accent (any one of a dozen would
suffice).
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| 3249.29 | Are they using OpenVMS ? | RECV::TAMER | | Wed Jul 20 1994 12:38 | 3 |
| .27
Is Digital licensing OpenVMS to them ?
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