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The people that were using UNIX workstations back then, even Xenix, compared to MS-DOS was probably 1 to 1000.
by bluedino 5y ago
The people that were using UNIX workstations back then, even Xenix, compared to MS-DOS was probably 1 to 1000.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoSure. But MS-DOS didn't define "computing" in 1989. I think it's fine to say something like "pkzip was developed on a platform with a lot of limitations, and you can see some of them in both the program and file format designs". It's quite different to claim that the design of pkzip somehow reflected the general state of computing in 1989 - it just isn't true.
- bluedino 5y agoI'd argue that it did, again for 1 out of 1000 people. Remember that the 'rest of the computing world' didn't really catch up to the early UNIX workstations until Windows 2000/XP.