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dredmorbius
on Aug 24, 2013
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 mo...
Microsoft also created the first UNIX port to x86: Xenix.
As Oedipus and the Titans showed, sometimes we create our own usurpers.
sitkack
on Aug 24, 2013
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MS ran off the hell off of Xenix internally. Mail, calendaring, etc. I remember when NT was going to be the best Unix out there... And then Win32 happened and coolaid got sloshed around. The NT Kernel could have been an amazing Unix.
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As Oedipus and the Titans showed, sometimes we create our own usurpers.