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@horsfall.org> wrote:

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, David wrote:

[ Great story!]

 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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