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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <2025Aug13.194659@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,   
   Anton Ertl  wrote:   
   >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.   
   >   
      
   They did manage to crack the college market some where CS departments   
   had DEC hardware anyway.  I know USC (original) had a Rainbow computer   
   lab circa 1985.  That "in" didn't translate to anything else though.   
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