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Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by slededit on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:11PM (#18124752)
They only offered CP/M after Kildal threatened a lawsuit, and at 3x the price. I think it was fairly certain which would win by IBM. That and DOS was mostly compatible, famously porting Visicalc only required changing 3 bytes.
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