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How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds

Unfortunately the QL was not backwards compatible with the ZX Spectrum.

Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS

> which later sparked the IBM PC-compatible computer industry.

The spark was Columbia Data Products doing a clean room design of the IBM PC BIOS.