Mxsmanic wrote:

Michael A. Terrell writes:


Anthony Fremont wrote:

IBM completely killed off Honeywell and Burroughs with good marketing
skills, not better hardware. The competition lay in salesmanship and
brainwashing, not making better stuff or even trying to be cost
competitive.


IBM killed off Burroughs? What are you talking about? Burroughs
merged with Sperry in 1986 and still operate under their new name,
Unisys.


IBM didn't kill off Honeywell, either. Honeywell bought GE's computer
division, then Bull SA (the French computer company) bought Honewell's
computer division. Today it survives as Bull SA (the unfortunate name
of the company comes from Fredrik Bull, the Norwegian founder of a
company that ultimately evolved to Bull SA today).


Well, that's a lot of Bull