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@paraw @dpiponi Partially true. The choice of MSDOS (a clone of obsolete CP/M) and the 8088 (a lower cost 8086) by IBM held back PCs (which existed for 5 years then) by nearly 10 years. The 8086 was only a pseudo 16 bit CPU, largely similar to the 8080 family with only 64K address blocks and ghastly segmented addressing of the 1M. BASIC shipping with IBM & later BBC Basic terrible. Minor nit: Edsger See also Hoare, Wirth and others. Due to MS, Google, Mozilla & Apple we have gone backwards.