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Re:CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Down... by canucker2016 on Friday July 18, 2025 @04:05PM (#44609194)
Jobs had control of the hardware and the software.

Gates (well, the MS programmers) had to make the software work on the PC hardware of the time (CGA/EGA video cards including non-square pixels and terrible colour palette, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100625-00/?p=13...)

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Re:CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Down... by rbanffy on Monday July 21, 2025 @06:23AM (#44633558)
Terrible palettes were a thing (the Macintosh II was the first Apple computer able to correctly display the Apple logo) in other platforms as well, as were rectangular pixels. Macintosh was the first Apple computer designed to have square pixels (even though the II came close for its original HGR modes, but that was gone with the /// and //e higher resolution modes).
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