Re:Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset
by brudgers on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:21AM
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Microsoft's roots are contrary to characture in popular culture - they sold and developed for Unix throughout the 1980's. It's big and corporate, but it's still a company founded as a software startup and always dogfooding its way into new products.
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Re:Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset
by jalanb on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:31AM
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+1 for Xenix: the first Unix variant I met, where I learnt C and sh, and capable of handling 8 student terminals linked to a single 386!
Re:Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset
by ben1040 on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @12:35PM
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>they sold and developed for Unix throughout the 1980's
Even into the late 90s. I remember trying out MSIE 5 for Solaris circa 1999. It ran like crap, but that was probably just as much a function of the SS20 I was using at work at the time as it was IE's fault.
Re:Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset
by leejoramo on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @11:02AM
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And don't forget Excel, Word and PowerPoint all started as early Mac apps. (Yes, there was Word and MultiPlan for DOS before, but the Windows versions are more directly descended from the Mac). And of course, MS Basic ran on many platforms.