A steady trickle of IBMers who have left the company as true believers in Unix after working on development of IBM’s RT and finally thrown in the towel over the company’s failure to bring out RT models in the timeframe for which they were designed made it clear that all was far from well at the company’s Austin, Texas Advanced Workstations Division, and evidence that nothing has improved comes with the news that 14-year IBM vet Charles Sawyer, most recently a senior technical staff member working on AIX Unix, having before that worked on the RT software system architecture definition, has followed IBM Fellow Glenn Henry to Dell Computer Corp, also based in Austin, to take the director of product planning post.
