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The discussions here about Windows NT, Netware, and the various UNIXes transports me back to my youth when I worked as a freelance system/network admin for vari

• bombcar 4y ago
  It's kind of weird that Linux in a way became what people were afraid Windows would - Linux has absolutely crushed and destroyed all other OSes so that all that remains on server is basically Linux and a small amount of Windows in a bad POSIX mustache with a sign around its neck that says "LINUX". And worldwide we're basically down to three or five OSes: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, depending on how you count them. The various "flavors" of Linux are way more similar than even old versions of Windows were.
  • msla 4y ago
    > It's kind of weird that Linux in a way became what people were afraid Windows would The fear surrounding Windows was that a company would own computing even more than IBM owned computing in the 1950s: Microsoft would be it, every other company would exist at Microsoft's sufferance and effectively pay a tax in order to be allowed to keep existing, and anything which would threaten Microsoft's current business plans would be destroyed through a mix of API changes, revocation of developer licenses, AARD code-like subterfuge, and, in extremis, actual lawsuits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code Add Palladium on top of that, and PCs are better locked-down than cell phones turned out to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...