networkworld.com —Good write on long relationship between NEC and Microsoft. In 1979 NEC introduced the NEC 8001 microcomputer based on the 8-bit z80 microprocessor. It ran Bill's BASIC interpreter. This was before DOS, Windows and IBM.
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