The computer at the bottom of a canal

 The computer at the bottom of a canal

Fascinating tale. This early company got so much right in hardware then abandoned, and maybe RISC turned out a too RISKy for the world, if evaluated fairly.

Spoiler, some of it is the Steve Jobs / Alan Kay idea of "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."

I think about that a bit - like how much more fun Amigas were for gaming than PCs (and that dark era of EMM and SoundBlasters and all the crude.) Or how the first iPhone had amazing, stutter free scrolling that was baked into hardware - even if the rendering hardware couldn't keep up you got a nice grid until the content had time to be drawn.