• psud@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    And IBM asked for Microsoft to do the operating system because they had just survived an anti trust trial, and didn’t dare release a system with their own OS for fear of reigniting the anti trust case

    Otherwise PCs would have shipped with Unix

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      11 months ago

      Considering the hardware of the PC, fat chance Unix would run. They’d have to make a very cut down somewhat unix- resembling OS