From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 00:07:28 +0800 Subject: [TUHS] How Unix brings people together, or it's a small world In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3101539A-0E7A-4AF8-B290-5E00252E4CB0@superglobalmegacorp.com> I doubt Microsoft would have made it without Xenix on their backoffice, and it was not only UNIX that inspired the changes in MS-DOS 3 and OS/2 to make it more UNIX like, but had inspired Cutler to make the next VMS written in C to be portable. Maybe we'd be in a far more Vax dominated world with more Digital inspired mid range kit, or something else would have filled the void to deliver us from a single vendor. On February 6, 2017 6:10:44 AM GMT+08:00, Dave Horsfall wrote: >On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, David wrote: > >[ Great story!] > >> So, who else has weird stories of how Unix development or Unix >> conferences had the side effect of making the world a smaller place. > >Unix itself pretty much changed the world; without those two bods we'd >all >be running M$ Windoze, and believing that it's wonderful ('cuz Billy >told >us so). > >-- >Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will >suffer." -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: