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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There were other operating systems available for Intel based platforms. They didn't take off (obviously) and Windows did. You cannot blame MS for making an OS that developers wanted to develop for.
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The only reason Microsoft became the monopolist they are today, is because they rode on IBM's coat tails in the early days of PCs (when they were synonymous with IBM). It had nothing to do with merit, it had everything to do with IBM's choice of MS-DOS instead of Digital Research.