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From: mingo@well.sf.ca.us (Charles Hawkins Mingo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Death of OS/2? (was Re: Microsoft OS/2?)
Summary: Microsoft and Unix
Keywords: Unix, Microsoft
Message-ID: <23110@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 11 Feb 91 23:54:19 GMT
References: <29814@usc> <70447@microsoft.UUCP> <1991Feb10.121445.9312@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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>>Also, Ajay, who is the single biggest provider of Unix software?
>>A silly little toy-software company called "Microsoft".  
>
>I'm casting about in my mind for any recollection of a MicroSoft trademark
>on any of the software on my Unix system. I see AT&T, I see Sun, I even
>see HP. But MicroSoft? Would somebody clue me in? Can I buy MS Word for
>Unix? Excel? C compiler? What have I been missing?

	According to the Wall Street Journal, MS owns an operation called
(I believe) The San Jose Project (I'm sorry I can't remember the city) which
just happens to be the largest single producer of Unix packages.

	San Jose makes Unix for 386/486 types of machines.  Not NeXT's
or Suns (which I presume you are using now).

	(Perhaps you've heard of the new joint venture between MIPS, DEC
and Microsoft to produce a Unix-based RISC desktop system by 1995?  
Microsoft's contribution would be the Unix courtesy San Jose Project.)
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