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WalterBright on Aug 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

IBM went to Gary Kildall at Digital Research first.

Microsoft was already a very successful microcomputer software company at the time.

blocked_again on Aug 10, 2020 [–]

Yeah. But there is a good chance that it would not be remotely anywhere as sucessful as it is today has it not got the IBM contract.

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