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Re:Dennis Ritchie, 70, Dies, Programming Trailblazer by jitl on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:30AM (#12698673)
Darwin, the open-source operating system UI underneath both macOS and iOS, is based on FreeBSD and the XNU kernel, plus some NextStep stuff. And of course FreeBSD is based on BSD, which was a patch set derived from the original AT&T Unix.

It's amazing that in 2016, the two major consumer computing platforms are BSD and Linux, and Windows in struggling to catch up.

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Re:Dennis Ritchie, 70, Dies, Programming Trailblazer by justinlardinois on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:53AM (#12699368)
Depends on how you slice it. Windows still dominates the personal computer market.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

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Re:Dennis Ritchie, 70, Dies, Programming Trailblazer by hprotagonist on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:54PM (#12702667)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62kxPyNZF3Q

>And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market.

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