> Burroughs Computers essentially went out of business because their > computers refused to do illegal operations while IBM's computers > very happily did all sorts of illegal stuff.
Way off topic here... Burroughs became part of Unisys and the architecture that "refused to do illegal operations" still exists in products sold today. Well, its emulated on intel hardware these days, so perhaps that doesn't count. I miss coding in algol :-) // marc
