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Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds ...
Every RISC vendor had their own little PC 'consortium' (except perhaps Sun SPARC). They never sold that well, and when te Intel Pentium Pro came out, it beat them on most specs, so the whole idea of a RISC PC died around 1996 (outside of Apple).
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