Amusement from MS Technet

On 08/20/2013 10:31 AM, Liam Proven wrote: It took me some time to jog my memory as to where I'd seen the squib, but I finally located it in Nearl Margulis' Intel/Osborne-McGraw Hill book "i860 Microprocessor Architecture" (1990, ISBN 0-07-881645-9) on page 5, quoting BillG: "We fully expect to see a whole new generation of high-performance systems built on i860 microprocessor technology that will challenge the current standards in that market. Although projections indicate the first use of the i860 microprocessor will be in the technical computing market, eventually we expect to see application of this chip in the personal computer market...(This) will bring the computation power of supercomputers to PCs." FWIW, the book itself is not particularly a masterwork of clarity and organization. Strangely enough, this book was sitting next to Conklin's "OS/2 Notebook" of the same year in which BillG, in a joint press conference with Cannavino, extols the wonderfulness of Microsoft OS/2 2.0. Of course, we know that BillG was sharpening his dirk to plunge into Cannavino's back while he was making those utterances.