> 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