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Until then, the footprint is too big, and the installed base is too small.
Microsoft itself is responsible for the POSIX shell - it was required to compile into a 64k text segment on Microsoft Xenix.
Without Bill's beloved Xenix, ksh88 would have been the POSIX standard.
It's all Microsoft's fault.
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Until then, the footprint is too big, and the installed base is too small.
Microsoft itself is responsible for the POSIX shell - it was required to compile into a 64k text segment on Microsoft Xenix.
Without Bill's beloved Xenix, ksh88 would have been the POSIX standard.
It's all Microsoft's fault.