Sure, but where those the advanced environments that were cancelled by people hopping on the Linux/C/etc bandwagon? I don't think that the argument goes with mo

Sure, but where those the advanced environments that were cancelled by people hopping on the Linux/C/etc bandwagon? I don't think that the argument goes with more funding Little Smalltalk would've been our software savior. There sure was a lot of abandoned programming environments, but it was usually the enterprised that fathered them that killed it. NeWs was more interesting than pretty much all of its successors. And I'm sure the Lisp Machine or Oberon grognards are willing to chime in, too. Everything being boring AF, both on the hardware and software side, certainly enabled Linux to succeed. It's a lot easier to compete if the state of the art is libc and X11.