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You mean the times of Aix, Solaris, HP-UX, NeXT, Mac OS, Amiga OS, Atari ST, Acorn, BeOS,AS/400, z/OS, Psion, Palm Pilot, Atari Portolio, Newton, ...?

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Aix, Atari, Amiga, Acorn, and BeOs were dead; Solaris, HP/UX, and NeXT were POSIX and had no applications except for highly specialised professional use cases; most of the rest were embedded platforms doing their own thing. None of them had any kind of meaningful market share. It was hell for Mac users because only the loyal developers from the previous decade remained. Windows was on something like 90% of home computers. I remember it very clearly, it was a Windows monoculture and it was fucking awful if you were on another platform.

I bet you still write M$....

Already your assessment regarding AIX being dead, when it is one of survivors from UNIX/Linux wars shows how your Microsoft hate blinds your judgement.

Do you know of a decent summary of the current state of AIX? I was aware that new systems were still being sold and deployed but had that filed more under "not dead yet" than "survivor" as such.

Well, no. Why would I? Even if I did, it does not change the facts.

AIX is alive-and-well in many enterprises. I know several companies in the gaming industry (casinos and lottery, not video games) that swear by AIX.

Same here. Still seeing some Solaris alive too.

Solaris was my favorite 90's Unix. I even had a Sparc 10 at home for a while!

Don't forget all the DEC stuff! OpenVMS, Ultrix, Digital Unix/Tru64 ...

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