Almost equally striking is the fact that the leading lights in the Open Software Foundation, IBM in particular but also DEC, little more than sheepish bystanders at the festivities: with no new products to replace the RT – a product quite well received in Europe but almost universally ridiculed in the US, IBM is giving […]
Almost equally striking is the fact that the leading lights in the Open Software Foundation, IBM in particular but also DEC, little more than sheepish bystanders at the festivities: with no new products to replace the RT – a product quite well received in Europe but almost universally ridiculed in the US, IBM is giving the impression that as far as it is concerned, Unix is an irritating and embarrassing distraction to its efforts to go about its own business without outside interference, and the big question that hangs heavy in the air is how it managed to inveigle firms that are extremely serious about Unix – in particular Hewlett-Packard Co and Apollo Computer Inc into joining it – and DEC’s – Unix spoiling tactic, the Software Foundation.
