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Re:The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the ri... by C1sc0cat on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:09AM (#18873284)
I suspect Digital research Blowing off IBM had more to do with it
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Re:The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the ri... by masklinn on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:30AM (#18873363)
That had to do with CP/M not being the standard/mainline OS for the IBM PC (and even then, CP/M was supported but released 6 months after DOS and for 6 times the price), it didn't have to do with IBM selecting Microsoft as their OS developer / vendor, especially since microsoft didn't even have an OS when they were selected.
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