From: davef@tsoft-inc.com   
      
   On 8/15/2025 1:47 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   I consider it all the fault of short sighted people at DEC.   
      
   The VAX would have made a really nice PC, and follow-ons such as Alpha would   
   have happened.  But no, DEC was stuck on small volume with large profit   
   margins.   
     Probably the high overhead of all those support people had something to do   
   with that.  But, that plan was doomed.   
      
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