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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: In defense of the VAX
Message-ID: <9335@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 89 22:33:10 GMT
References: <653@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <653@m3.mfci.UUCP>, by rodman@mfci.UUCP (Paul Rodman):
> 
> If they don't build something very vax-like, then was it worth
> all that thought/analysis? Or did they really need less people and
> better intuition(s) about hardware/compiler directions for the
> future?

Predicting the future is not something anyone does very well.  I
suspect that in 20 years there will be a new generation of engineers
scoffing at those ancient idiots who managed to convince themselves
that RISC was a brilliant idea, and they will be able to see
perfectly, in hindsight, exactly the direction that should have been
taken.
-- 
Mike Coffin				mike@arizona.edu
Univ. of Ariz. Dept. of Comp. Sci.	{allegra,cmcl2}!arizona!mike
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