John Bull on Nostr: nprofile1q…ftwlf nprofile1q…hlxtq Compaq were deeper into the hardware than ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqu36unh8numuwc65pt0se4secnfll5th2t9458uw4xy05xsak7c4qgftwlf (nprofile…twlf) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqyafpcskrxd6kr9609m5nq89wyxn7p0gz06xauxujvt8j9s7lpn3skhlxtq (nprofile…lxtq) Compaq were deeper into the hardware than Microsoft ever cared to be, which was why they were better at pacing the IBM PC DOS releases than the second dev team at Microsoft.

And the real money Microsoft was making was selling to the clones, not IBM.

So Gates realised that maintaining two dev teams was bad economics. IF Compaq were prepared to give him their version and let him file the serial numbers off it, before selling it on, and keep the deal secret.

They were.