Maybe? The architecture is weird -- it required user programs to be aware of and utilize superscalar pipelining. Superscalar pipelining was a great bet, the ass

Maybe? The architecture is weird -- it required user programs to be aware of and utilize superscalar pipelining. Superscalar pipelining was a great bet, the assumption that programmers and application writers could explicitly take advantage of it was not. It's a really COOL architecture, but I'm not sure it could ever have been a commercially successful one.