My guess is that it was a non-US based, non-commercial project that was too ahead of it's time. Think of a Canon Cat on steroids crazy. By this time C had already "won" as the system programming language for large systems.

Plus when my buddies and I were interested in it, there was no hardware in the States to run it on. It did get one of our number into the PC532 scene and I came up a semi-interesting idea to turn graphics chips into encryption engines based on the NS32GX32 instruction set.