John Bull on Nostr: nprofile1q…hlxtq both. The version for IBM and the version for clones were both ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqyafpcskrxd6kr9609m5nq89wyxn7p0gz06xauxujvt8j9s7lpn3skhlxtq (nprofile…lxtq) both. The version for IBM and the version for clones were both forks, developed in isolation to keep IBM sweet.

Compaq had a third fork, from the version of MS DOS as IBM

So once Compaq got better at cloning the PC version in theirs, Gates realised it was cheaper and more efficient to just buy it back off them and sell it on.

Freed up resource for other stuff.