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Old 06-10-2015, 05:08 PM   #772
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I heard IBM needed more resources to develop OS/2.
It may have been a joint effort rather than a subcontract, but you would think IBM would be have been smart enough not to share secrets with pirates. Argg.
Back then, the mindset at IBM was that they were a hardware shop, the software was a means to sell hardware.

So they really didn't understand the new software centric model. Of course, at that time, the PC hardware was just starting to become commoditised.
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