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computers and the market domination.

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gerald_clark:
BIOSs are written by IBM, Phoenix, and AMI.
And if Gary Killdal had not been golfing when IBM came knocking on his door, people
would be running Digital Research's CPM-86 now instead DOS/Windows.

Take off your tinfoil hat and let your brain get some air.

cast-fish:
Hello again,

Thanks for your input.

Just wanted to be more aware of idiosyncrasies in life.
Like my post says about motor cars and thousands of brands and models of
that expensive invention

but PC computing...?.just one.

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gerald_clark:
There isn't "just one" computer, and
Microsoft didn't demand that all PCs could only ever run Windows.
What they did was make a business deal with some manufacturers that gave them a better price if all their computers shipped with Windows pre-installed.
You should stop listening to PC conspiracy theorists.

Misalf:
And since most servers on the internet run Unix based systems, it would be a shot in the foot to eliminate alternatives to Windows-Hardware™. There will always be a choice. (;

cast-fish:
Right.

There is some interesting stuff here.

http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-06/st_billgates

Gates signs a contract with IBM, agreeing to develop software for the PC. Later he buys an operating system called QDOS for $50,000, improves it, renames it DOS, and licenses it to IBM.


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