From one of those strange wending web-browsing sessions that started as innocent “work-related research” and ended up following the history of CDC…
IBM, 1964:
How is it that this tiny company of 34 people —including the janitor — can be beating us when we have thousands of people?
…to which Cray reportedly quipped:
(and, incidentally, FUD – a phrase I associated with the 1990’s and linux – apparently dates back to the early 20th century. It puts in an appearance here, in the 1960’s, and lead to CDC winning a lawsuit for $600 million. Nice. Can you imagine someone pulling that one off against Microsoft in the 1995-2005 era? Or Apple, today? I doubt it…)