Absolutely. The familiarity makes it hard to appreciate the novelty. I've looked at the architecture of some of IBM's minis of the era (and some of the more am

Absolutely. The familiarity makes it hard to appreciate the novelty. I've looked at the architecture of some of IBM's minis of the era (and some of the more ambitions microprocessors - eg iAPX432) and they just look so strange in comparison.