Re: Intel previews new Itanium "Poulson" processor

Neil Rieck <n.rieck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(snip)

The next week I brought in the Wozniak's 8-chip floppy controlled and
the DEC instructor was totally blown away. It was ever more impressed
when I told him the Apple disk subsystem could format magnetic media
(the RX11/RX01 could not).

What is my point here? Apple could have (and did for a while)
dominated the computer world. They had the superior technology but a
culture of big egos and large margins prevented it from happening.

As well as I understand it, the Apple II disk is low(er) technology,
but it works.

There is no reason that the RX01 controller couldn't format,
except that DEC didn't design it that way. What better way
to sell expensive pre-formatted disks!

-- glen
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