@ioletsgo you'd laugh but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix...

@ioletsgo you'd laugh but
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

there's a very real timeline where microsoft just made a linux distribution with a proprietary gui instead of first making an gui for dos and then an entire os from scratch

Like 20 Nov 2023 at 10:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on wetdry.world

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@halva both ms-dos and the NT kernel both came largely into commercial use from contract work with IBM.

20 Nov 2023 at 10:39 | Open on wetdry.world

halva is

@ioletsgo i mean yeah obv

what im saying is that microsoft already did have commercial success with selling at&t's unix

20 Nov 2023 at 10:42 | Open on wetdry.world

halva is

@ioletsgo if anything that timeline is more likely than the one we've found ourselves in, as windows 3.x was the last attempt to make it popular after windows 1.0 and 2.x kinda flopped

20 Nov 2023 at 10:41 | Open on wetdry.world

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