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There was also a culture clash between IBM and DR. According to a Big Blue dinosaur I met years ago the suits from Armonk arrived in California ready to negotiate the contract and were met by a group of bearded long-hairs in Hawaain shirts. The meeting did not go well.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:32:22 No.51085273 Report Delete

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>Gary Killdall would have been made multibillionaire
>DR would have been huge, software industry would have progressed a ton, instead of getting stuck windows crap
>Bill Gates would be reduced to a computer store clerk in Albuquerque

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:50:54 No.51085508 Report Delete

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>Would things be much different if IBM chose CP/M over DOS?
IBM did choose CP/M. Both CP/M 86 and DOS were available for the IBM PC. Only DOS became popular though.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:58:52 No.51087508 Report Delete

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I'd have rather seen Forth take everything over.

I like it and use it now. Plus if you are an HP calculator fan, you'll know RPL is basically Forth.

Look how much fun the guys in the pic are having. HP calculators functioned as another layer of backup in case the onboard computers failed.

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