Meaning software was written that targets MS-DOS so if a computer didn’t have MS-DOS the software wouldn’t work, and so there was a large demand for MS-DOS? Can’t the software vendor just ship a compiled version of their software? Or their software bundled with an assembler for whatever OS?
MS used the IBM deal to sell their OS to a bunch of other computer makers. At that point, IBM switching would have meant an incompatible OS.
Meaning software was written that targets MS-DOS so if a computer didn’t have MS-DOS the software wouldn’t work, and so there was a large demand for MS-DOS? Can’t the software vendor just ship a compiled version of their software? Or their software bundled with an assembler for whatever OS?