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Did it "do" anything special -- or was "cheap" its USP?

• cmrdporcupine 6y ago
  It ran on x86 before anything else like that existed, which tbh was a pretty big deal.
• Yetanfou 6y ago
  No, nothing special, its thing was that it ran on off the shelf PC-hardware which made it cheap to deploy.
• Angostura 6y ago
  It was also simple, comparatively nicely packaged Unix. You could pop it on a PC and it would run.