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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Fast 432  (!?)
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Date: 28 Apr 88 19:01:19 GMT
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>In article <367@m3.mfci.UUCP>, colwell@m3.UUCP (Robert Colwell) writes
	> ... maybe it [the Intel 432] addressed issues that were just
	> too far in the future, and still are.  The basic goal of the
	> machine was to trade off basic performance for other things
	> that were felt to be more important at the time, like programmer
	> productivity ...

Maybe it wasn't all to do with performance. Someone on our project considered
using it back then, and was put off solely by the $50,000 Intel wanted for an
Ada compiler. There may have been a lot of small startup companies for whom
that sort of money meant choosing a Motorola or NatSemi CPU instead.

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