On 7 May 2009 at 13:30, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
For a alternate world ... Had the PDP 11 been reduced
to a simple IC
design and operation code set, DEC may have got the PC market. Ben.
Didn't the Soviets have their own versions of the LSI 11 and even put
on in a calculator? I do know that they had "personal computers"
built around the architecture.
But when the PeeCee came out, they happily went for the x86.
--Chuck