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Did you know... that Microsoft head
Bill Gates giving a keynote address at the Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast", and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?
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... that Microsoft head
Bill Gates giving a keynote address at Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast" and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?
I've added a mention of the Unix-based
NeXTSTEP to the article. But of all the things Jobs is famous for in the popular imagination, use of Unix is not one of them. Same with Gates – Microsoft once had a large role in Xenix, but that's not what either he or Microsoft ended up being famous for.
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