John Bull on Nostr: Next up in my Silicon Valley history column after Tramiel is Compaq and Rod Canion. I ...
Next up in my Silicon Valley history column after Tramiel is Compaq and Rod Canion.
I get to tell the story about how Compaq got so good at cloning MS DOS for the PC that Bill Gates secretly agreed to licence MS DOS off THEM.
Every MS DOS install on a PC Clone after 1983 was actually Compaq DOS, with the serial numbers filed off by Microsoft. #technology #history
I get to tell the story about how Compaq got so good at cloning MS DOS for the PC that Bill Gates secretly agreed to licence MS DOS off THEM.
Every MS DOS install on a PC Clone after 1983 was actually Compaq DOS, with the serial numbers filed off by Microsoft. #technology #history