Re: Chipsandcheese article on the CDC6600

On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:18:52 -0600, John Savard wrote:

While IBM did not appear to understand the wisdom in Cray's remark at
the time - that a large organization can have internal politics and
communications overhead and other things that hamper innovation - it did
_eventually_ learn its lesson.
 
So when it came time for IBM to make its mark in the new, emerging field
of microcomputers, it had a small team, working in isolation from the
rest of IBM, go and design the IBM Personal Computer in all its 4.77 MHz
8088 glory.

That turned out to be an exception (a temporary lapse in corporate
control) rather than a rule. IBM as a whole learned no such lesson, as the
subsequent PS/2 and OS/2 development showed.