I'm half way through the book and found it quite good if you are interested in strategy, private equity because it talks about relatively recent events. There's also a recent a16z podcast with Dell, Martin Casado and Andreessen that I enjoyed https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/cloud-wars-company-wars-pla...
Michael Dell went on John Calacanis' podcast last week too, discussing the book. It was a pretty good listen.
Jobs wanted a cut on every PC sold if the deal went through. That was too much for Dell since they were selling so much PCs already, so it fell through.
I believe one of the founders of PowerComputing (one of the original Mac Clone Makers) was an ex-executive from Dell. PowerComputing was really putting the hurt on Apple's sales of computers for a while.
Random factoid since we're talking about PowerComputing. Back in the day, you could run MacOS on an IBM RS/6000-43P (I think it was the only RS/6000 with MacOS drivers) and you could run AIX on the Apple Network Server machines (which were the only macs with AIX drivers.)
But since other people in this thread are talking about other Unixes, it's fun to think of what would happen if IBM and Apple continued the AIX / Mac experiments.
