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25 points by thomson 10 years ago · 5 comments

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smacktoward 10 years 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.

  • farva 10 years 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.

  • z1mm32m4n 10 years ago

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

rberger 10 years ago

Forgot - Lisp: 1958 - Emacs: 1976

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