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At that time they thought they could destroy Unix. Its interesting to think of what could have been, but it was never a real possibility as far as microsoft wa
by slededit 8y ago
At that time they thought they could destroy Unix. Its interesting to think of what could have been, but it was never a real possibility as far as microsoft was concerned.
- pjmlp 8y agoThey could have destroyed UNIX, traditional commercial UNIXes that is, like SGI and such. Many UNIX customers were in the process of evaluating their workstation story related to hardware and license costs, eyeing a possible switch to NT Workstations. That did not happen, because GNU/Linux came into the scene and many saw there an opportunity to improve it and get a pass porting their UNIX software into it instead, while using commodity PC hardware, specially as BSD future was still being decided. Without BSD and GNU/Linux, the future would have looked much different. Instead BSD and GNU/Linux were the ones killing commercial UNIXes.