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   On 21/08/2025 15:41, Dave Froble wrote:   
   > 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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