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>The speaker does not touch at all the details of why all of these were superseded by supposedly worse and more complex systems, "What went wrong?" Microsoft i
by gjvc 5y ago
>The speaker does not touch at all the details of why all of these were superseded by supposedly worse and more complex systems, "What went wrong?"
Microsoft in the 1980s / 1990s
- lproven 5y agoPartly. Not just them; in a way, MS was an outgrowth. MS DOS wasn't written in C. MS BASIC wasn't. But Windows was. And they didn't have a good direction for Windows until they got OS/2 3 in the divorce from IBM, and hired Dave Cutler et al from DEC to finish it and make it work. OS/2 and NT were built using tools developed on (and for) UNIX. Mostly, C. Win NT is the next generation of both DEC VMS and OS/2, and it was built using the language that was being honed on, and for, VMS' rival on the PDP-11 and VAX: UNIX.