Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sequel.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!ogcvax!sequel!tdl From: tdl@sequel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: uP architecture - (nf) Message-ID: <200@sequel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 11:23:20 EDT Article-I.D.: sequel.200 Posted: Fri Jul 1 11:23:20 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jul-83 15:46:20 EDT References: <189@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: Sequel Computer Systems, Portland Lines: 10 My theory as to why early micros weren't very elegant is that they were designed by hardware people as solutions to hardware problems. It wasn't until they were used for a while and the amount of code written for them became substantial that the software aspect became more important than the hardware aspect. Its for the same reason that noone thought to write compilers for the first micros. Tom Lovett Sequel Computer Systems pur-ee!sequel!tdl or ogcvax!sequel!tdl