Thread: Another proof Elop is a trojan horse
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-07-17 , 17:33
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Nah, those came later, after the race was won. Originally all the killer apps were written for CP/M.



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.
The race was between Commodore, Apple and a few others, Oric etc. The IBM PC was extremely expensive in comparison, a factor 10 typically. But because of Word Perfect and Lotus, MSFS and so on, the only thing to have was a IBM or a clone. CP/M had nothing to do with this, at that time the world were all Commodore and Amstradt, Oric and so on while IBM was exclusively business. Commodore faught well, but had to give in eventually.