Remember all that vacillation over which RISC Compaq Computer Corp would eventually take between Sparc, R-series and even 88000? Well gossip has it that when Rod Canion took the company into the ACE consortium, the research and development department was not consulted, the suggestion being that the decision was exclusively a political one – but as Scott McNealy likes to jeer, what do Compaq people know about real research and development anyway.
