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Not at all, except for Hotmail and Yahoo, I never saw it being used personally. In fact, had I not bought a set of Walnut Creek CD-ROMs, I would never had used
by pjmlp 5mo ago
Not at all, except for Hotmail and Yahoo, I never saw it being used personally.
In fact, had I not bought a set of Walnut Creek CD-ROMs, I would never had used it in first place, and never again since those days, excluding derivatives like macOS and Orbis OS.
Which is why I asserted with good POSIX support, the world today probably would be Windows NT linage on the PCs, plus the commercial UNIXes everywhere else.
- hnlmorg 5mo agoYou work for mainly Windows shops though don’t you? My experience was very different in the 90s. Solaris, FreeBSD and Next were very widely used. The only times I saw NT was in edu, government, and a random publishing house (which ran pirated copies of NT 4 on the servers and Mac OS 8 everywhere else). That publisher is an interesting chapter in my career on its own actually…