oldchina
Boeing was fully caught up by 1995 with, arguably, a better FBW system having learned from Airbus's FBW launch. All they had to do was spread that 777 platform across the size range, as Airbus did, and gain all the same advantages plus having Airbus go first to mark all the potholes along the way. But they didn't, something else happened a couple of years later, turned it around and drove it off the cliff