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To: Taro who wrote (941391)	6/19/2016 6:45:52 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 1572896

Yeah, Ken blew it. They could have made the Micro T-11 in the late 1970s, early 1980s quite easily. It had 13,000 transistors including a memory controller that could use static RAM, DRAM and EPROMs. To put it in perspective, the 8086 was a late 1970s design with about 30,000 transistors. Combined with a modified version of RT-11, which Gary Kildall modeled CP/M after, they could have ruled the early microcomputer market. The PDP-11 had an instruction set to die for. Unlike the 8080 and its derivatives. And they could have easily had an upgrade path and kept it from cannibalizing their minicomputer business until it eventually got eaten anyway. Most of their main business was locked in anyway due to legacy software and service contracts. Those that weren't, went with microcomputers anyway. They could have updated and cost reduced their VT-52 and made it into an all in one, except for the drives. It would have been more expensive than say, a Cromemco, but...

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