Published at LXer:
Lordy, lordy, look who's 40! Happy birthday, Unix -- you're looking great for your age. You certainly weren't the first operating system on any platform, but you managed to stride from the minicomputer era into the microcomputer era and the personal computer era, winning fans wherever you went. How many other operating systems can make the same boast? With your birth as our starting point, then, let's look at the biggest desktop OS milestones of the past 40 years.
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