From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 18:14:31 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Windows roots and Unix influence (was Re: Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!) In-Reply-To: References: <20180204091435.GA22841@indra.papnet.eu> <00d001d39ddc$a069a380$e13cea80$@ronnatalie.com> <0B2B7C84-12D8-49A6-BAA3-BD434823D41D@cheswick.com> Message-ID: <371a22e7-d58f-04e9-f1b6-c8efa0b31406@gmail.com> On 02/06/18 16:51, Dan Cross wrote: > Also, on a less martial track, one of the things I vividly remember > about the NT introduction were the many dire predictions that this > spelled the imminent death of Unix. NT would sweep all before it into > the dustbin of evolutionary history and Microsoft would achieve total > world domination. It seems that Linux was the rebel alliance to that > galactic war, though. I'm curious what others thought of those > predictions: did they even get onto your radar? I remember attending a Unix International meeting where the mood was one of fear and despondency. I thought their attitude insane but the few I spoke with thought that NT would take over the world. (I encountered the same at a satnav meeting. Motorola's satellites were in orbit -- I forgot the name of the actual venture -- and MS had just paired with somebody to put their own satellites up. Fear everywhere.) N.