John Dvorak Thinks VLIW Was "Trendy" in 1994

They forgot to tell me...

"Utilizing trendy ideas of the era—such as RISC and very long instruction words (VLIW)—Intel was convinced it could do something more modern than the creaky x86 architecture (which first emerged in 1978, for God's sake). "

From: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339629,00.asp

(1994 was the date of the Intel/HP announcement.)