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In article <slrnpblj1u.eu5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid>,
Jorgen Grahn  <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>On Wed, 2018-03-21, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:20 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>...
>>>>> It took Linus to turn unix into a true, and widely-used,  personal
>>>>> operating system.
>>>> 
>>>> Well ... 386BSD (becoming {Free,Net,Open}BSD was stable a little bit 
>>>> earlier, but didn't get Linus' marketing push.
>>>
>>>That was my other thought: why Linux and not BSD?
>>
>> I suspect the SYSV v. BSD issue.  Linux is much closer
>> to system V than BSD.
>>
>> Then there was IBM, SGI, HP and others pumping tons
>> of money into linux (by allowing employees to contribute
>> to Linux on company time, sponsering conventions, etc).
>
>They do that /now/, but I don't remember that they did in the 1990s,
>when Linux won.
>
>/Jorgen

I think there were issues with lingering AT&T claims to BSD which
slowed things down for a while as parts had to be rewritten "clean",
and also 386BSD stalled for a while as the author had in mind more
of a teaching tool than a supported, stable system and things didn't
take off for FreeBSD & NetBSD until it was forked.
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