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HP isn't one company. They are two completely separate companies that share part of their name.

Both come from the Compaq/HP chimera that absorbed DEC's name. The apple doesn't fall far from the other apple from the same tree.

HP, Compaq and EDS.

Most of what HP got from DEC went into HPE. And the old HP offices in Cupertino are now Apple's new spaceship campus.

Those were dark days.