[Info-vax] Viable versus ideal programming languages

[Dave Froble]

On 3/23/2022 12:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

>
> I wonder how much of this notion that small systems aren't useful
> for anything but playing games contributed to companies like DEC
> missing the boat when the micro world came along.

At a guess, I'd say that gamers feel they need the most powerful systems.  They 
would be wrong.  What they actually want is really good and fast graphics.

If DEC had taken games seriously, they might have prospered.  Come up with 
rather inexpensive systems affordable to individuals, and sold a lot of them. 
DEC never had the concept of "cheap".


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