[Gllug] Re: Gates to get Knighthood!!! (Andrew Halliwell)

[Rob Crowther]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Rubbish.  IBM and the clone manufacturers brought computers to the
> masses.  Maybe you are too young to remember.
>
Surely it was the company who did the first rip off of the BIOS?  The 
whole clone industry was built on the back of that.  Without that we 
would have been enjoying proprietary IBM hardware, and M$ would always 
have been under the thumb of Big Blue?

Rob

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