On Fri, 6/19/15, William Donzelli <[email protected]> wrote: > DEC architecture machines were in the serious minority when it came to > military computers in combat service.
It turns out that was partly by design. Recently I was reading an interview with Ken Olsen that I hadn't seen before. In it he was saying that particularly in the early days DEC made a point of avoiding government, especially military, contracts. All of the special accounting and record keeping that was required was more trouble than it was worth. BLS
