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And IBM asked for Microsoft to do the operating system because they had just survived an anti trust trial, and didn't dare release a system with their own OS for fear of reigniting the anti trust case
Otherwise PCs would have shipped with Unix
Considering the hardware of the PC, fat chance Unix would run. They'd have to make a very cut down somewhat unix- resembling OS
Unix ran on weaker hardware than the 80286. Unix is old