Talk:Unix Expo

A fact from Unix Expo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Microsoft head Bill Gates giving a keynote address at the Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast", and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 12:45, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Microsoft head Bill Gates giving a keynote address at Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast" and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Old Church of Siġġiewi

Created by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 16:10, 25 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Sufficient length, properly cited, the hook is a cute anecdote. ViperSnake151 Talk 05:50, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Jobs[edit]

It is ridiculous that the article should claim Steve Jobs is not associated with Unix, since NeXT Mach and MacOS X are both based on BSD Unix! 2600:8800:1880:902:F885:D2B5:8881:DBE3 (talk) 01:44, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a mention of the Unix-based NeXTSTEP to the article. But of all the things Jobs is famous for in the popular imagination, use of Unix is not one of them. Same with Gates – Microsoft once had a large role in Xenix, but that's not what either he or Microsoft ended up being famous for. Wasted Time R (talk) 10:23, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1991 was also smack dab in the middle of the A/UX miasma, although Jobs was not at Apple in 1991... Elizium23 (talk) 13:54, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]