On 1/27/23 11:58, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I mean, many of are typing on the descendants of them right now. The rest all failed in the marketplace.
"Were eventually discontinued" is not the same as "failed in the marketplace". Many were wildly successful before being supplanted by other architectures. You know this. By your logic, when x86 PCs are eventually discontinued, which they surely will be at some point, you would then retroactively assert that they "failed in the marketplace". Nothing could be further from the truth. One must consider several contexts: market impact and penetration, market longevity (meaning the longevity of the actual market), and the time period you're talking about. (the last two are closely related) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA