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From: kary@hplsdla.HP.COM (Dan Kary)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architecture upgrade
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Date: Tue, 30-Dec-86 00:19:32 EST
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> >It's easy to imagine that DEC would have been at least a year
> >later in introducing the VAX without compatibility mode.  Makes
> >you wonder what the world would look like today, if that had
> >been the case.

> This is *exactly* what I meant by 'brilliance'! There were many projects
> that were so advanced they came out years too late because it took too
> long to write the software for them.

The Apple Macintosh is a good example.  It was two years late.  If their
delivery had been more timely MS-DOS and intel processors might be as
popular as they deserve to be.

Dan Kary