Except that Microsoft hired people out of college to work on Midori, which they surely wouldn&#x27;t have done if Midori was simply a place to dump the people they couldn&#x27;t&#x2F;wouldn&#x27;t fire, which was the point of DEC&#x27;s &quot;No output division&quot;[1].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.computerhistory.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;text&#x2F;DEC&#x2F;dec.bell.no_output_division_C-I_TF;productivity_review.1982.102630376.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.computerhistory.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;text&#x2F;DEC&#x2F;dec.be...</a>