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Realize you are somewhat summarizing, but:

"compatibility with unix" didn't matter in those days.

There were many, many OS's, all running on computers so expensive (for whichever micro/mini/mainframe segment) that most people didn't expect to replace them, ever.

cpm vms tops10 tops20 unix multics rsx11 mvs os/360 gcos apple dos etc etc etc.



The article mentions Xenix, to be more specific.




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