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Sadly the same happened with Lillith and Oberon machines from ETHZ.

Hardware targeted to a specific language only has advantage for a little while, until general purpose hardware catches up.

As for the economies of scale of UNIX workstations, former AT&T, Stanford and BSD students got lucky with their workstation startups.




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