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These kinds of articles were much more important/interesting in the 90s when it wasn't clear that Linux was ever going to be adopted by business or become mains

by spudlyo 14y ago

These kinds of articles were much more important/interesting in the 90s when it wasn't clear that Linux was ever going to be adopted by business or become mainstream. For example in the late 90s when the Burlington Coat Factory started to roll out Linux clients to all of its warehouses, it was a big deal. Now Linux is everywhere from smartphones to supercomputers, and has pretty much outlasted or killed off all its former proprietary UNIX competitors. It'd be news if AIX, Tru64, SCO, or Solaris had anything to do with the discovery. We can stop doing this now, we've won.

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rwmj 14y ago
I was writing scientific X-ray detector software in the early 90s, and it all ran on ... OS-9. (And for the newbies around, that's got nothing to do with Macs)
- sixothree 14y ago
  I know my TRS-80 ran OS-9.
  - rwmj 14y ago
    OS-9 was pretty cool considering it was a fully fledged multitasking OS that ran in a very tiny amount of RAM (I think 128K was the minimum?). Of course we ran it in 8MB on 68020s which was simply luxury.