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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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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

debating Microsoft's business practices, which we we all know were shady as fuck, is veering away from the point that ibm's loss of the home market is ibm's fault. ibm never saw the home market as a lucrative avenue

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You should dig into how MS came to be and IBM's involvement.

    They essentially created MS, and Billy Boy was their shill.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    no. i am going to slightly contradict my earlier hyperbole but microsoft was formed by bill gates and paul allen to work with altair. ibm was not involved then. this is why i have serious doubts about historical events because even things that happened during my lifetime are being altered

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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