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"The book is brimming with interesting stories and business lessons. He relates in one how Bill Gates, in the early days of Microsoft, made a personal visit to
by Aegean 16y ago
"The book is brimming with interesting stories and business lessons. He relates in one how Bill Gates, in the early days of Microsoft, made a personal visit to his home to convince him to use MS-DOS as the operating system in Amstrad’s PC’s."
I knew a lot about Alan Sugar but didn't know that.
- dtf 16y agoI'm sure I remember the Amstrads running CP/M, a competitor to DOS. I wonder if that choice was made before or after Bill's visit.
- semanticist 16y agoDepending on the model line, some ran CP/M (PCW line, option for CPC line), some ran 'AMSDOS' (CPC line), and they also had a line of traditional 'IBM compatible' PCs that ran MS-DOS. The CPC and PCW machines were Z80-based, I doubt they'd've been suitable for MS-DOS