Conference 7.286::digital

    Who is Compact?
    
    Mark.

    DEC merges with Mattel ... introduces a new line of bionic Barbie's.

    Dave Cutler 
    	cashes in all his Microsoft royalties/stock options 
    	buys Digital Equipment Corporation.
    	Appoints Roger Heinen as President	
    	renames DCL to be Xwindows Optional Userinterface (XOU)

re .-1

>renames DCL to be Xwindows Optional Userinterface (XOU)

Shouldn't that be ...Xwindows Optional User Interface (XOUI)?

Then we'ed have our own zoowie as well as a gooie ... :-)
	                 XOUI                GUI

John

    
    Digital bought by FORD.  FORD comes out with new minivan called
    Alphastar.
    
    Mike

    >         <<< Note 1965.6 by GRANMA::MWANNEMACHER "Let's get to it" >>>
    >                          -< You heard it here first >-
    >
    >
    >    Digital bought by FORD.  FORD comes out with new minivan called
    >    Alphastar.
    >
    >    Mike
    
    does this means we'll all going to move to Detroit?
            
    I like Detroit, it is lots of fun place, you can drive across to
    Windsor , Canada over the bridge over the sea, or in the tunnel,
    in no time, and come back same day to the US. 
    
    i think working on factories is not that bad, i think we'll all like
    it once we get used to it.
    
    when should i start packing?
    
    /nasser

    Would Alphastar get 200 mpb (miles per byte)?
    
    A 19" monitor instead of windows?
    Front discs? A travel computer that figures how far we are from
    Maynard,MA?
    Mouse instead of steering wheel?
    I hope they have 4 rotating flashing led's on the dash board 
    like they used to on the VT100,
    
    and most importantly, do you have to take out the front seat to check
    if the disk and/or oil is full?
    
    Regards, KOL ;^}

    The Truth!!!
    
    
    "DEC merges with Mack and builds a truck thats so loaded down with
    redundant systems and requires so much do-nothing management to
    operate that it can't move." Turns out that it becomes a big seller
    in florida where they become popular as artificial reefs....

    dec will make money

    less 30k people.
    

    I heard that Elvis was recently spotted talking to the BOD at HP. Seems
    he wants to turn Nashville into a high technology center. 

>    dec will make money

	DEC merges with the U.S. Mint?

>    dec will make money


     Reducing headcount will decrease cost. Sales are flat.  Sales-cost=profit

Ahhh Gi'day...�

	    We'll be bl**dy lucky if we can keep sales only flat.

	DEC merges with Browning Ferris Industries ( the waste
	disposal people ).

	We manufacture things and take them directly to the landfill,
	thus saving sales costs, distribution costs, marketing costs.

	Profits up 400% the first year !

	Steve H

    ADP buys DEC and comes out with "ALPHA PDP 1170"
    
    

    To produce a series of computer-degraded cartoons starring:
    
    	K** O** as Gyro Gearloose
    	B** S** as his friend the light-bulb man
    	J** S** as Donald Duck (Waaak, waaak, waaaak)
    	B** S** as Scrooge (although for the sheer, senseless focus,
                            Osterhoff would have been a better cast)
    	P-C F** as Gladstone Gander
    
        etc.etc.
    
    
    Notes: 1] An * may stand for one, more than one, or no characters.
           2] The resemblance of the above initials & castings to any
              persons living, dead or in a coma is purely by chance.

    And take your pick of a never decreasing team of Veeps, for Huey,
    Louie, and Dewey.
    
    q
    

    heck, we got enough veeps to populate Tunetown!

>    heck, we got enough veeps to populate Tunetown!

Wasn't that Toontown ?

:-)

Same thing, in US pronunciation.

    oops

This old chestnut again.

Subj:	FWD>DEC And HP MERGER??? 

From INTERNET                 FWD>DEC And HP MERGER???


                   SPECULATION THAT DEC AND HP MAY MERGE

  MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 1992 AUG 7 (NB) via First! -- The lead story in
Pacific Computer Weekly this week reports on current talk that Hewlett-
Packard will take over Digital Equipment within the next nine months. The
Australian computer newspaper quotes a number of analysts who comment on the
possibility.

  DEC has slipped from position two to four in the Datamation top 100
computer companies, while HP has moved up from seven to five. HP is
performing strongly while DEC has had numerous rounds of layoffs and bad
performance reports. HP revenues are around 40 percent less than DEC's, it
has been making a profit, and has a much higher market capitalization.

  Analysts disagree about DEC's moves to revamp its high-end hardware while
shedding staff. Some feel this will place the company in a good position for
the HP takeover as it will be lean and ready to blend into the HP style.
Others feel it is bleeding the life from what has been a great in the
industry.

	I'm buying DEC stock like its going out of style.

				   -davo

p.s.	At these prices, who can resist?

    
    What do you mean "like"?  DEC stock IS going out of style.  
    
    
    
    		:-)

>> 	I'm buying DEC stock like its going out of style.
>> p.s.	At these prices, who can resist?

Hmmm. Maybe you should ask some Wang people about that attitude? 8-)

Regards,
Steve.

re: .28,

>> 	I'm buying DEC stock like its going out of style.
>> p.s.	At these prices, who can resist?

> Hmmm. Maybe you should ask some Wang people about that attitude? 8-)

	Oh, so we're comparing DEC to Wang now are we?  I see...
    Well, like most people, I'm not too sure about my job here at
    DEC anymore, but as far as DEC stock goes, Call me a fool but
    I've become extremely bullish in the past year or so.

				-davo