On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Rich Shepard spewed into the bitstream:
RS>at IBM it would take an executive committee three months to
RS>decide where to go for lunch, so change occured at glacial speed.
I've heard it said that a camel is a horse designed by a comittee! :-)
RS> Excruciatingly-poor decisions were (perhaps still are) rampant in the
RS>computer industry. No more Digital (DEC), Apollo, Kaypro (maker of the first
RS>"real" laptop after the Tandy 102) and a whole bunch of others.
One of the poorer decisions of all time happened when some engineers at
BBN (the contractors who built the ARPANet) wanted to get in the router
business and the VP of Marketing pooh-poohed the idea, saying that there
was not and never would be a market for routers... Me-thinks he wishes
he'd chosen differently!
This whole internet history thing is told quite well in Katie Hafner and
Matthew Lyon's book:
where wizards stay up late
the origins of the internet
published by Touchstone ISBN 0-684-81201-0 in hardback and 0-684-83267-4
in papaerback.
--
Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com
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