Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Kludge wrote:

in BASIC were superfluous and it didn't matter if they didn't work right,
and that stack machines had no future.  (He was in fact right about the
last one unfortunately.)

>
Was he right or was he just trying to shift the blame?

Well, he made the argument that they were making a product that was broken,
but not enough people were buying it for them to bother fixing it.  However,
too many people were buying it for them to stop selling it.  I find this
argument abhorrent.

But it IS true that the HP1000 series was of limited industry acceptance and
soon died out and that you won't see stack machine architectures on the
market today.  I loved programming those things.
--scott

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