A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures (devblogs.microsoft.com)

blog post by

Raymond Chen

excerpt

I’ve written in the past about the cultural mismatch between Microsoft and IBM during the collaboration on OS/2, with the Microsofties viewing their IBM colleagues as mired in pointless bureaucracy and the IBM folks viewing Microsofties as undisciplined hackers.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025687

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Apple Lisa Pascal Sources - Pascal for small machines (pascal.hansotten.com) Apple Lisa Pascal started as a buy in of the Silicon Valley Software (SVS) Pascal compiler. And maintained/expanded the compilers you can read in the sources. SVS continued selling Pascal compilers, in the manuals you can read references to versions for CP/M and more.

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the old new thing of

website

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298

when

2026-05-05