Had Microsoft taken care of it like other OS vendors did with their POSIX compatibility layers, instead of using it for DoD contracts and Win32 migrations, and FOSS UNIX clones would never had mattered.
The only reason I started tinkering with Linux, was that Xenix and DG/UX were a little hard to come by for work assignments at home, and stuff like Coherent wasn't really a solution.
I am not sure about that. NT licenses weren't cheap back in the day, and Linux was $0. (And didn't come with baggage like a more expensive SKU to support more CPUs)
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Your timeline is a bit off, Windows NT released in 1993 had POSIX personality already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT
Had Microsoft taken care of it like other OS vendors did with their POSIX compatibility layers, instead of using it for DoD contracts and Win32 migrations, and FOSS UNIX clones would never had mattered.
The only reason I started tinkering with Linux, was that Xenix and DG/UX were a little hard to come by for work assignments at home, and stuff like Coherent wasn't really a solution.
I am not sure about that. NT licenses weren't cheap back in the day, and Linux was $0. (And didn't come with baggage like a more expensive SKU to support more CPUs)
NT licenses were included in the computer price anyway. I was running NT during university, and eventually dual booting with Linux.