[TUHS] Interesting post about Microsoft and UNIX

[John Levine]

According to Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>:
>On 12/6/24 8:38 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>> /his was before IBM came on board/
>
>and IBM had no interest in the 386 at the time, which set the
>wheels in motion for Gates to acquire Cutler and DECwest

That was oddly shortsighted of IBM.  Was it 16 bits is enough
for anything you'd do on your desktop, or 32 bits is too close
to competing with our big machines?

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