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Which was all about the BIOS. Having an MS-DOS "portable" wasn't a bad thing either.

• pjmlp 5y ago
  It doesn't matter if it was about the BIOS or whatever else, had IBM won there would be no clone market. Microsoft could have tried to make MS-DOS portable similar to CP/M or UNIX, but it would be a big what-if regarding Amiga, Atari, Mac, Archimedes and UNIX market.
  • protomyth 5y ago
    Had IBM won, most of the fair use we take for granted would have gone out the window. The modern day version of that lawsuit was Oracle vs Google. Compaq started the clone market and I see no reason that their strategy would have been altered in a Motorola vs Intel world.
    • pjmlp 5y ago
      On my alternative universe, the same people that decided to pick Motorola might also have had the perspicacity of putting in place the mechanism to prevent such actions.