What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2041
No, I don't. I understand very well how the exposure kiddies got to DEC computing in the 60s and 70s lead to this PC generation. The first task was to eliminate...
I am sure others will disagree, but I don't think any of this was decided on the merit of the quality of the products. NT came a lot later after the MS-IBM split and while the early releases with relatively little market share were technically of significant quality, MS very quickly loaded them down with a crushing burden of bloatware which pretty much eliminated the original clean state machine design.
OS-2 wasn't all that bad. The point is that IBM hired MS to develop an OS and then let MS take off with all the goodies when the project was about 3-4 done, finish the recipe, and sell it in compebreastion against IBM when IBM had fronted a significant part of the R&D capital.
In most cases, this would result in a huge lawsuit and MS management likely doing time in Club Fed with Martha Stewart. Instead, IBM simply *LET* MS get away with what amounted to a mbuttive theft of IP that had been paid for by IBM shareholders and then let MS exploit it to compete against IBM.
You have a very exalted view of the overall importance of DEC as it was when you worked there to society at large, and in my view a rather naive view of the...
All of this seems to have stemmed from a persistent notion within IBM that the PC market was irrelevant to their business model.
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2042
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