From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-08-15, bill  wrote:   
   > On 8/15/2025 8:40 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   >   
   > If you consider it lucky to be overtaken by another company for   
   > their good and yours was only an unavoidable fluke.   
   >   
   >>                                  For example, Motorola would have been   
   >> a far better starting point.   
   >   
   > Motorola was supposed to be the original starting point.   
   >   
      
   And the sad thing is most people don't realise what they could have   
   had instead of x86. Intel should have been a footnote in history as   
   an extinct calculator CPU and memory chip manufacturer.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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   Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
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