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Dang. I remember when "IBM Compatible" was normal terminology.
Remember to schedule your colonoscopy!
debating Microsoft's business practices, which we we all know were shady as fuck, is veering away from the point that ibm's loss of the home market is ibm's fault. ibm never saw the home market as a lucrative avenue
You should dig into how MS came to be and IBM's involvement.
They essentially created MS, and Billy Boy was their shill.
no. i am going to slightly contradict my earlier hyperbole but microsoft was formed by bill gates and paul allen to work with altair. ibm was not involved then. this is why i have serious doubts about historical events because even things that happened during my lifetime are being altered
I think the OP can be understood to mean “how MS came to be as successful as it was, as quickly as it was.”
Without assistance from IBM they’d likely be nothing.
Bill Gates mother was on a charity board with with the IBM CEO at the time, which is the only reason Microsoft got the contract IIRC, cause she used her connections to push for it
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