• jonne
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    11 months ago

    I mean, most of us were stuck using inferior operating systems until Linux and OS X became mainstream versions of it we could use. It’s not like everyone got to use UNIX from day one.

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      11 months ago

      I think if anything I’d view it from the other direction. We had machines with hardware support for memory protection and multitasking and we got DOS. DOS was the abberation.

      Microsoft was a Xenix vendor before it sold DOS.