Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: 4->8->16->32->64? bit micros Message-ID: <4810@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 12:16:54 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4810 Posted: Thu Dec 20 12:16:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 12:16:54 EST References:<280@oakhill.UUCP>, <764@oliven.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > The point is, someone may decide to do it just for > the fun of it and thats all it takes. Actually, not necessarily. There have been cases where company X did silly-and-pointless-but-spiffy-looking thing Y, and everybody else recognized the stupidity of the idea and ignored it. You don't see many Intel 432 clones around, despite an incredible amount of hype at the time about how it was the obvious next step in machines. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry