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IBM sent to Palo Alto a 125-page contract. Jobs tossed it down without reading it. IBM给NeXT发送了一份125页的合同。乔布斯读都没读就扔掉了。 You don't get it, he said as he walked out of the room. 别来这一套。他边说边走