[Ti] Apple's True Market Share!

[Ric Perrott]

On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 07:05  PM, Chris Olson wrote:

> Another perspective; x86 became the "standard" because it was 
> developed *for* Microsoft.

Absolutely False. I would expect someone like you to know better.

IBM chose the Intel 8080 processor as the one that would go in their 
first entry into the personal computer market. Microsoft then had to 
PURCHASE an Operating System that ran on it because Gary Kildall of DEC 
refused to talk to IBM when Bill Gates sent them over there to talk 
about licensing CP/M to run on the IBM PC.

Intel was around and making x86 processors long before Microsoft was 
anything.

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