@isaackuo yeah. it's why i don't think their decision to stick with CP/M was necessarily the wrong one AT THE TIME.
Hindsight is 20/20
I think a lot of people don't realise just how TOTAL IBM's blitz of the business computing - and then home computing markets was.
The path to survivability for Vector was very small once IBM showed up, but they definitely shot themselves in the foot a couple of times to make their chances of survival even worse.