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> But try to imagine what the name "Microsoft" must have sounded like -- it doesn't sound very ambitious. It sounds a little lame. If you planned to be the biggest company in the world, would you name your company "Microsoft"?

They certainly were no match for the ambitions of Intergalactic Digital Research.




Ha! I didn't know Digital was originally called that. That's a beautiful irony.

http://www.digitalresearch.biz/HISZMSD.HTM




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