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25 pointsthomson10y ago5 comments

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smacktoward10y ago

> So both the 70s and the 90s were great decades for computing. Not sure what happened in the 80s

Microsoft.

- MS-DOS: 1981

- Word: 1983

- Windows: 1985

- Excel: 1985

- Word for Windows: 1989

- Office: 1990

If your view of computing history is through *nix-alike or Mac lenses the '80s are going to look pretty barren, because the '80s were when Microsoft was busy driving both those markets into nearly-complete irrelevance.

farva10y ago

AT&T and Sun did a good job of rendering Unix irrelevant during the "Unix Wars". Microsoft hedged their bets with Xenix until it became clear that wasn't the way forward.

z1mm32m4n10y ago

Interesting, what caused those markets to resurge in the 90's then?

IvyMike10y ago

Internet

rberger10y ago

Forgot - Lisp: 1958 - Emacs: 1976

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