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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by Animats on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:56PM (#26746522)
The systems which did that, TOPS-20 and VMS, lost out to Unix, which didn't.
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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by jcrawfordor on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:49AM (#26746837)
By nearly the same token, though, one could say that Windows NT, which is for most practical purposes a descendant of VMS, implemented these ideas... and UNIX lost out to it.

I think that some version of this dichotomy has existed at nearly every point of computer history where technology allowed it, and that is surprisingly far back!

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by Annatar on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:54AM (#26747439)
How did UNIX lose out to NT, when market forces coerced Microsoft to include a shoddy copycat version of UNIX named GNU/Linux inside of NT? That is almost the ultimate punishment for Dave "Gettabyte" Cutler, the father of NT and a notorious UNIX hater.
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