IBM and Microsoft Corporation - EMACS at CO

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Two answers required. The CEO of one of these companies connected with the mother of the other company’s CEO when they were both on the board of United Way. As recounted by Raymond Chen, employees of one of these companies placed a coffee machine in a box labeled “confidential” so that the other company contractually couldn’t remove it. During a venture codenamed “Project Chess”, executives of these two companies met (-5[1])in Boca Raton. The operating system (*) OS/2 was jointly (10[1])designed by these two companies. Apocryphally, a deal fell apart when Gary Kildall and his company Digital Research refused (10[1])to sign an NDA, which led these two companies to work together instead. Under that partnership, one of these companies made the DOS operating system for the other’s PCs. For 10 points, name these two companies, one of which makes Windows and the other of which (-5[1])is nicknamed Big Blue. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: IBM and Microsoft Corporation

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Conv. %	Power %	Average Buzz
100%	0%	117.75

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Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Jerry Vinokurov	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	69	-5
Corry Wang	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	78	10
Aseem Keyal	Macro Editors	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	97	10
Dan Ni	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	Dianetics for Diabetics	143	-5
Swapnil Garg	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	148	10
Seth Ebner	Dianetics for Diabetics	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	148	10