XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com   
      
   On 8/13/25 11:26, Ted Nolan  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Skidmore College was a DEC shop back in the day.   
      
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