10 Feb
2010
10 Feb
'10
11:39 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of e.stiebler
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:04 AM
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: The value of assembler language programmers [was RE: Algol
vs Fortran was RE: VHDL vs Verilog]
Ian King wrote:
No, I mean ones that people actually bought.
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 ;-)