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On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:43:33 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    DOS turned out to be easier to deal with, so it won.
>    Bill Gates also won because his lawyers sneaked-in a small-print item
>    requiring IBM to always include his latest system along with their
>    PCs - and the IBM lawyers MISSED it.

There were a few other things going on like a suit against IBM by Digital 
Research. DR won so IBM had to offer CP/M-86 but it was priced much higher 
than DOS. 

CP/M-68K would have been interesting but there weren't too many platforms. 
Lisa was a flop and the original Mac wasn't that great. Other than high 
end systems that left Atari and Commodore, both of which had sort of a 
non-serious reputation.

Sprague Electric used Commodore PETs. Besides playing snake they used GPIB 
for the peripherals, aka HPIB. You could hook them to HP instrumentation a 
lot cheaper than buying a HP computer.