Talk:Taligent

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The cards still exist in the possession of a manager at Apple -- I saw them in 2001 ;-)

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I was working at IBM between 1985 and 1998. In 94 I had dealings with Taligent and AIM, attending a programming boot camp at the Taligent office in Cupertino. As I remember IBM's WorkplaceOS and Mach architecture grew out of Taligent and not vice versa. It was a shame as the Taligent GUI was very nice, but at that time it was very, very slow as it was running on AIX.

Cheers, PBA

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I do remember the hubris of the Taligent folks, which led to a sarcastic comment the floated around the industry regarding the attitude of Taligent. "Hi! We're from Taligent. Give us the money." Considering the current state of the world's most prevalent OS, perhaps they were justified.

[edit] Page needs work.

This article needs to be seperated into different headings (i.e, "Pink Cards", "AIM joint venture", "The fall of Taligent", etc. The article also seems too much like a one-sided conversation. Not encyclopedic enough. Otherwise, it's great.

-- While it might benefit from more subheads and possibly citations, I disagree that this article is "not encyclopedic enough." The writing isn't the least bit conversational, it has no personal pronouns, and it focuses primarily on the facts of the company's lifespan. Also, having worked at Taligent during pretty much its entire existence, I can vouch for the accuracy of the article. Badken 08:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name origin

I don’t actually know the origin of the name, but about ten years ago I heard it explained as “Talent without NT, Intelligent without Intel.” This would explain the strange-sounding name. --193.11.177.69 19:45, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I worked at Taligent from '91 until the end. The name was created by a professional marketing agency. No explicit relationships with other brands should be inferred, it's just what some external group of name-brainstormers came up with. Badken 08:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)