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> 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.

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.

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

Internet

Forgot - Lisp: 1958 - Emacs: 1976

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