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It ran a rough clone of a disk operating system that was already obsolete. Yet that was the beginning of the personal computing revolution -- a computer on every desktop.

Most computers and operating systems these days do not have that IBM PC heritage. Rather they use ARM microprocessors which were first developed for Acorn Computer's BBC Micro, and they run Unix-like operating systems, especially Linux which was Linus Torvalds' rough clone of Unix.

A boring old conventional reactor design like the BWRX-300 could be just what it takes to kickstart a modern 21st century nuclear power industry. I don't think one detracts from the other.

Big money people tend to be conservative.

"Nobody got fired for buying BWRX-300" could be this century's "Nobody got fired for buying IBM."