In the early 90s, IBM made classic "big corporation" mistakes, especially with respect to how wily Microsoft was.
They also made classic "big corporation afraid to cannibalize it's old profits" mistake, and more arguably, they made some ickky design decisions in OS/2, like not going with fork/exec when starting a process, not having a good, clean definition of "a process",and some other things.
They also made classic "big corporation afraid to cannibalize it's old profits" mistake, and more arguably, they made some ickky design decisions in OS/2, like not going with fork/exec when starting a process, not having a good, clean definition of "a process",and some other things.
Why bring this up again now?