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Old Stuff That Rocks

• smacktoward 11y ago
  > So both the 70s and the 90s were great decades for computing. Not sure what happened in the 80s Microsoft. - MS-DOS: 1981 - Word: 1983 - Windows: 1985 - Excel: 1985 - Word for Windows: 1989 - Office: 1990 If your view of computing history is through *nix-alike or Mac lenses the '80s are going to look pretty barren, because the '80s were when Microsoft was busy driving both those markets into nearly-complete irrelevance.
  • farva 11y ago
    AT&T and Sun did a good job of rendering Unix irrelevant during the "Unix Wars". Microsoft hedged their bets with Xenix until it became clear that wasn't the way forward.
  • z1mm32m4n 11y ago
    Interesting, what caused those markets to resurge in the 90's then?
    • IvyMike 11y ago
      Internet
• rberger 11y ago
  Forgot - Lisp: 1958 - Emacs: 1976