Thread: Another proof Elop is a trojan horse
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2011-07-17 , 10:19
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
Windows, or rather DOS, won the PC race because of killer applications like Lotus and Word Perfect in business (and home), games
Nah, those came later, after the race was won. Originally all the killer apps were written for CP/M.

and because the IPM PC was cloned making a market for subcomponents and new PC brands.
That. Open hardware that you could buy and boot any OS you want on (having the potential to run CP/M was a major point, even if most people didn't do that at the end). The 8088 being cheap didn't hurt much either. The IBM PC-compatible won first, and (MS-, not PC-!) DOS followed simply by being the OS that came free with the PC.
 

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