Very interesting article. I worked on the qualification of the Intel math coprocessor at IBM which was code named "Cornrow", a reference to Bo Derek's hairstyle in the popular 1980s movie "10". Those were interesting times. IBM help save Intel with an almost 20% share in the company which almost put IBM out of business a decade later. Thankfully both are still around today and are still innovating and essential to the technology industry.
In the same time period DEC was working on a desktop PDP-10. It never saw the light of day as DEC dropped their entire mainframe business to concentrate on the more-profitable minicomputer business. Maybe mainframe manufactures had PC FOMO?
Very interesting article. I worked on the qualification of the Intel math coprocessor at IBM which was code named "Cornrow", a reference to Bo Derek's hairstyle in the popular 1980s movie "10". Those were interesting times. IBM help save Intel with an almost 20% share in the company which almost put IBM out of business a decade later. Thankfully both are still around today and are still innovating and essential to the technology industry.
Looking forward to your next article...since I own two P/370s and two P/390s, all Micro Channel and all running (and all in RS/6000 hosts).
In the same time period DEC was working on a desktop PDP-10. It never saw the light of day as DEC dropped their entire mainframe business to concentrate on the more-profitable minicomputer business. Maybe mainframe manufactures had PC FOMO?