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by sys_64738 186 days ago
> People forget that Microsoft was in position to compete because of Gates' and Allen's stellar BASIC. They were hand-picked by IBM because the market loved BASIC to the point of pirating it before that was even a thing. They cared about the product.

I thought the whole MS-DOS thing happened due to Billy's mom being secretary for the law firm that had IBM as a client.