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Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media by WalterBright on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:26PM (#24103049)
IBM went to Gary Kildall at Digital Research first.

Microsoft was already a very successful microcomputer software company at the time.

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Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media by blocked_again on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:09AM (#24107113)
Yeah. But there is a good chance that it would not be remotely anywhere as sucessful as it is today has it not got the IBM contract.
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