A spoonful of the past

He had received the most lavish praises, and he had harvested the nastiest curses.
He was a guy whose every vein pulsed with defiance.
He was a white boy who could never become a celebrity.
He was a youth from the countryside in the eyes of the masses.
He was Tommy Hawk.
He had been reborn.
Welcome to the story that tells of the American Dream in the first half and the American nightmare in the second.
Let's invite Tommy Hawk to take the stage, in the winter of 2022.

America 1982

IBM had originally pinned its hopes on its strategic partner Microsoft Company to help restrain the unscrupulous competition from other computer companies, by having Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system exclusively cooperate with IBM. That way those computer companies would have to search for different systems.


But Microsoft turned around and sold IBM clean out, accepting any computer company willing to pay a licensing fee. In short, once the money was paid, they could use the MS-DOS system at will.


Subsequently, Microsoft leapt to the position of a software giant, but the price was that its former partner IBM's market share in the personal computer market was directly cut in half.


Whether IBM truly wanted to ruin Compaq was unclear, but everyone was certain that IBM definitely wanted to cut down Microsoft for stabbing them in the back.


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