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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 (-5[1])codenamed “Project Chess”, executives of these two companies met in Boca Raton. The operating system OS/2 was jointly designed (15[1])by (15[1])these two companies. Apocryphally, a deal fell apart when Gary Kildall and his company (15[1])(*) Digital Research refused 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. (10[1])For 10 points, name these two companies, one of which makes Windows and the other of which is nicknamed Big Blue. ■END■ (0[1])

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