[Info-vax] Viable versus ideal programming languages

[John Dallman]

In article <t1fte1$crs$2 at reader1.panix.com>,
cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:
 
> DEC certainly seems to have missed the PC boat (or, rather, it
> entered the race after it was already too late to win), much to
> its detriment. 

Well, they messed up their initial attempt in the PC market:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100>

> But one wonders whether, in the end, they were "right", but 
> just too far forward thinking for the time.

More of a vision that they tried to implement with too-primitive
technology. 

John