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Thats anecdotal”
Not just anecdotal. There is and was tremendous infighting at IBM. I was at Santa Teresa and Toronto and Hursely. This was WAR.
Have you ever seen FRED? Do you know what it is?
Oh man I know there is always tremendous infighting at IBM. I was there in RTP working on CM/2 and supporting base devel in Austin and Boca.
But all I am saying is that there were fundamental architectural mistakes made with OS/2 that underpin the normal “how on Earth does this company ever make money” stories that one can always say about IBM.