Unix [was: do...until wisdom needed...]

[Fredrik Lundh]

Douglas Alan wrote:
> > Only if Unix had been more compatible with Unix, and with ordinary
> > human beings.
>
> A free and popular Unix would have only had to be compatible with
> itself.  DOS, which was the competition at the time, not Windoze 3.1,

ah, the revisionism.  ever used Microsoft Xenix ?

fwiw, Microsoft is rumoured to have been using Unix internally, on
homebrewn 68k boxes, years before some others guys decided to
run away with the Stanford University Network computer design
and start selling it as their own...

things could have been very different.

(wouldn't have saved us from holy xenix vs. linums wars, of course)

Cheers /F