Well, in this millenium :). And while I remember the Archimedes well, this was another day and age and unfortunately it failed to gain much traction back then.

Well, in this millenium :). And while I remember the Archimedes well, this was another day and age and unfortunately it failed to gain much traction back then. A lot of bad tech could have been avoided, if it had become main stream. I fondly remember the times, when there were plenty of competing processor architectures, almost every one more interesting than the x86 architecture.