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On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Rugal Falcon wrote:
[snip]
> Personally, I have nothing good to say about the quality of Compaq's
> hardware (especially their cases - Why do I have to pull out the PCI
> cards before I can get to my motherboard?!!), and my girlfriend's HP
> laptop seems to be getting slower by the day (and re-formatting the
> hard drive doesn't help, so something in there must be getting
> overheated). So, I don't really know what the point was of HP
> purchasing Compaq.
[snip]
I'm not so interested in their PCs. A little while ago, Compaq bought
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), makers of the Alpha machines. Those
are speedy unix machines (we have some here at U Minn running VMS -
blech!) HP also makes higher end machines, but I don't know much about
them. So this will position the two companies well to compete more
effectively with Sun and IBM. That has to be part of the motivation for
the merger/acquisition. Someone tell me if you understand this better.
I agree that the Compaq PCs were not so great (but I haven't seen one in a
few years, so I don't know if they improved recently).
Mike
Michael B. Miller
Division of Epidemiology
1300 S. Second Street, Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015
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