6 Feb
2017
6 Feb
'17
4:07 p.m.
I doubt Microsoft would have made it without Xenix on their backoffice, and it was not
only UNIX that inspired the changes in MS-DOS 3 and OS/2 to make it more UNIX like, but
had inspired Cutler to make the next VMS written in C to be portable. Maybe we'd be
in a far more Vax dominated world with more Digital inspired mid range kit, or something
else would have filled the void to deliver us from a single vendor.
On February 6, 2017 6:10:44 AM GMT+08:00, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, David wrote:
[ Great story!]
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So, who else has weird stories of how Unix
development or Unix
conferences had the side effect of making the world a smaller place.
Unix itself pretty much changed the world; without those two bods we'd
all
be running M$ Windoze, and believing that it's wonderful ('cuz Billy
told
us so).
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suffer."