Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 20:54 UTC, submitted by Adurbe
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MS-DOS would only work 100% correctly on IBM branded PCs until Digital reverse engineered the BIOS.
MS would make almost certainly make PCs if antitrust legislation allowed them too.
Well this statement in itself is somewhat of a rewrite, when you factor in that at the time of MS-DOS, we neither had the computing industry we have today, nor would it have created any ripples what so ever had Microsoft chosen the same path as Apple. Anti-trust issues evolved much later in their life.
Apple does sell OSX, with the intention of the OS to be installed on Apple products. I have to admit ignorance on this subject as I am not an Apple user, but as far as I know Apple does not seem to require any ties to the hardware when installing OSX. Would it be reasonable to ask then why Apple does not require a hardware product serial number to be entered when installing the OS?