<p><pre><code> Unix was marginalized for years — much longer than a
traditional company could sustain it — before it became
one of the core building blocks of modern computing.
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IBM, AT&T, Novell, Sun, HP, SGI, and a whole cast of others sez WAT?<p>I can't think of any time in the history of UNIX you couldn't buy at least a half-dozen flavors from a broad range of vendors.