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		BSDobelix on Feb 14, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The History of S.u.S.E Microsoft is a least correct but: OpenAI = Not Open IBM = International Business Machines with NON international character encoding (EBCDIC). Oracle = NOT what you want from a database nor from a CIA project ;)

dessimus 12 months ago [–]

TBF, the Computing Tabulating Recording Company became IBM in the 1920's when they were selling punch card machines to businesses and governments around the world, including the Nazis thru their German subsidiary, Hollerith.

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