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If Linux/UNIX is so great, why didn't Microsoft create a distro (a decade or two ago)? Actually, they did! Xenix was Microsoft's Unix distro, licensed and deri
by Reason077 10y ago
If Linux/UNIX is so great, why didn't Microsoft create a distro (a decade or two ago)?
Actually, they did! Xenix was Microsoft's Unix distro, licensed and derived from AT&T's System V source.
During the late 1980s it was the most popular Unix variety of all, measured by number of installations.
- kbenson 10y agoThat makes complete sense, as when it was available it wasn't in competition with DOS, and once they started doing more multi-user stuff, it was (mostly) abandoned.