XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:   
   >anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:   
   >>Thomas Koenig  writes:   
   >    
   >>So how could one capture the PC market?  The RISC-VAX would probably   
   >>have been too expensive for a PC, even with an 8-bit data bus and a   
   >>reduced instruction set, along the lines of RV32E.  Or maybe that   
   >>would have been feasible, in which case one would provide   
   >>8080->reduced-RISC-VAX and 6502->reduced-RISC-VAX assemblers to make   
   >>porting easier.  And then try to sell it to IBM Boca Raton.   
   >   
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100   
      
   That's completely different from what I suggest above, and DEC   
   obviously did not capture the PC market with that.   
      
   - anton   
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