Mxsmanic wrote:

David Maynard writes:


No wonder HAL went a bit loopy


IBM was a good company in its time. Like so many computer companies,
it first developed problems with marketing and management, and these
eventually contaminated engineering departments. It's depressing to
think how many major mistakes in managing computer companies have been
driven by marketing and sales decisions. As one of a trillion
examples, just look at Intel's marketing-driven decision to pursue
inferior microprocessor architectures just so that it could run chips
at faster clock speeds (thereby satisfying clueless marketroids with
higher and higher GHz numbers).


And it's a shame how many companies have been ruined by letting engineering
make the decisions. But those don't usually get large enough to easily notice.