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Bill Gates:
Now, we know that IBM has set up this place to complete head-on with Apple, and that you're gearing up to come out with a personal computer that will wipe them out. So we can get you an operating system. IBM executive:
What kind of operating system? Bill Gates:
It's called DOS. Ballmer (narrating):
This is amazing. Not just amazing, it's historic. It should be taught in all the history books. Hung and framed in the National Gallery or something, because this is the instant of creation of one of the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. I mean, Bill Gates is the richest guy in the world because of what started in this room. And you wanna know what else? It wasn't exactly smoke and mirrors, but We didn't have anything! I mean, not a damn thing! Here we were, this two-bit little outfit, telling IBM we had the answer to their problems. The DOS? The Disk Operating System? To make all those zillion IBM computers compute? We didn't remotely own anything like what Bill was selling them. Nada. Zip
Now, we know that IBM has set up this place to complete head-on with Apple, and that you're gearing up to come out with a personal computer that will wipe them out. So we can get you an operating system. IBM executive:
What kind of operating system? Bill Gates:
It's called DOS. Ballmer (narrating):
This is amazing. Not just amazing, it's historic. It should be taught in all the history books. Hung and framed in the National Gallery or something, because this is the instant of creation of one of the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. I mean, Bill Gates is the richest guy in the world because of what started in this room. And you wanna know what else? It wasn't exactly smoke and mirrors, but We didn't have anything! I mean, not a damn thing! Here we were, this two-bit little outfit, telling IBM we had the answer to their problems. The DOS? The Disk Operating System? To make all those zillion IBM computers compute? We didn't remotely own anything like what Bill was selling them. Nada. Zip
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You wanna know what else
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It wasn't exactly smoke and mirrors but we didn't have anything
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I mean not a damn thing
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Here we were this two bit little outfit
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telling IBM we had the answer to their problems
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DOS The Disk Operating System
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To make all those zillion IBM computers compute
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We didn't even remotely own anything like what Bill was selling them
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Nada zip
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Movie Summary
History of Apple and Microsoft.
Actors
Bill Gates
