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You have to remember that the reality we live in is the one where CDP, Eagle and Compaq cloned the IBM PC BIOS and could offer compatible IBM PC clones with DOS
by bestham 6y ago
You have to remember that the reality we live in is the one where CDP, Eagle and Compaq cloned the IBM PC BIOS and could offer compatible IBM PC clones with DOS from Microsoft. That happened during the summer / fall of 1982. The assertions made in the original 1984 ad were in many ways a straw man argument since the PC compatible clones really took of during 1983 due to low supply from IBM and freed the PC from the control that IBM had.