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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
[...]
> OTOH, HP was also a big player in the mini and later workstation
> market, and they managed to survive, albeit by eventually splitting
> themselves into HPE for the big iron, and the other part for the PCs
> and printers.  But it may be the exception that proves the rule.

Exceptions don't prove rules.  They refute them.  (The existence of an
exception may prove the existence of a rule to which it is an
exception.)

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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