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What Happened To IBM PCs? Why The Company Stopped Making Them (www.bgr.com)
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Y'all remember shareware Doom on an IBM 486DX?

Welp, my back hurts!

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the OP can be understood to mean “how MS came to be as successful as it was, as quickly as it was.”

Without assistance from IBM they’d likely be nothing.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Bill Gates mother was on a charity board with with the IBM CEO at the time, which is the only reason Microsoft got the contract IIRC, cause she used her connections to push for it