Hewlett-Packard was instruments and test equipment company with some computer offerings appearing in 1970s. The latter were own designs, with bespoke CPU architecture and system software. Eventually they started producing PC clones which however weren't the core business.

Then early in dotcom boom era the company was taken over by new management and gutted for anything except the PCs and printers. That entity has very little to do with the ethos, capabilities and operations of the original company.

Test equipment business was spun off into Agilent, then split again into Agilent doing biomedical systems and Keysight producing T&M.

I realize this may sound like nitpicking but since the article refers to 1990 HP it should be understood it was an entirely different company.

Also nitpicking: “bespoke” means made for a particular customer. I think here you need to”proprietary”.

HP also split into HP Inc. and HPE in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard

Thanks! I only knew HP as the some computers and shitty printers company (and I realise that I swapped your adjectives, but I feel this way around is more deserved)