"Due to the poor performance of Lingo on the VAX, a subsidiary company, Linn Smart Computing Ltd., was formed to develop a new processor to efficiently run Lingo."
y tho
y tho
Ivor is well known for being single minded and opinionated. He'd proved his heretical and opinionated point about turntables against the general industry view in the sixties, and built a successful and highly profitable business on the back of it. From nothing.
From all I've read and heard of him, it's just the sort of thing I might expect. :)
Others had similar ideas about inventory and object oriented languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient_Overseas_Container_Line