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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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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 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

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours 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 3 points 15 hours 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