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Who would have ever predicted back in the 90s that Apple of all companies would be the last commercial UNIX workstation vendor.

My money back then would have been on Sun or SGI for sure.

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SGI was sabotaged by obvious corporate espionage by Microsoft -- the executive that urged the abandonment of SGI's generations-ahead GPU platform and MIPS for Intel gear had done the same thing to HP prior, and left for a long sinecure at Microsoft after he was done.

During the mid 90s you could have been excused for thinking the company’s name was “Beleaguered Apple Computer” that phrase was used so often in the trade press.

You'll like this Google N-gram plot for 'beleaguered Apple' at https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=beleaguered+Ap... with a clear peak at 1997.

Hmm... I wonder what happened in 1997. ;)

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