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contract, Microsoft is by far the largest software company in the world. It has a market capitalization of twenty-three billion dollars--more than General Motors, Xerox, or I.B.M. To what extent Gates is mainly a product of I.B.M.'s blunder, and therefore a kind of historical accident, and to what extent he i
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, renamed it ms- dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, convened it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
t contract, Microsoft is by far the largest software company in the world. It has a market capitalization of twenty-three billion dollars--more than General Motors, Xerox, or I.B.M. To what extent Gates is mainly a product of I.B.M.'s blunder, and therefore a kind of historical accident, and to what extent he i
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which =was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, =renamed it ms-dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, converted it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
t contract, Microsoft is by far the largest software company in the world. It has a market capitalization of twenty-three billion dollars--more than General Motors, Xerox, or I.B.M. To what extent Gates is mainly a product of I.B.M.'s blunder, and therefore a kind of historical accident, and to what extent he i
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which =was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, =renamed it ms-dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, converted it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
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