I was struck by that quote, too. Set aside IBM inventing RISC in the first place. How was it possible that in 1992, two years after RS/6000 hit the market and made IBM a first-class RISC workstation player—a peer of Sun and HP in terms of tech and sales—did IBM people still feel the need to resort to the subterfuge of a non-IBM engineer showing off a non-IBM RISC CPU to the IBM mainframe folks to give them a kick in the butt? The mind boggles.