I wonder how successful the likes of the Dec PRO series would have been had they not been
astronomically expensive, even compared to the already expensive IBM PC/XT. I had a
Pro/350 that my uncle bought brand new, and at the time I think he spent close to $10k on
it around 1983ish and it still had a monochrome display.
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Ian King wrote:
Think about it, if Ken Olsen hadn't been so
dismissive of the idea of
a Personal Computer,
we might have had J11-based desktops. After all,
a J11 with MMU
could
address 4MB,
instead of the anemic 1MB of the 8086/88. -- Ian
We had. Pro380 ;-)
No, I mean ones that people actually bought.