Amazing that they wrote this wonderful, detailed rant without mentioning Windows at all. VMS was certainly not the most popular OS or even most popular non-UNIX OS.
I mean, this is 1993 and they did mention DOS. But reading this, you would not know that most of those DOS machines were running Windows and that they were far, far more numerous than either UNIX or VMS. And Windows NT was already released when that was written.
Not that I am a Microsoft apologist. My main machine was OS/2 back then, I was already using Linux, and ( if I had the money ) NeXTstep would have been my dream platform.
I mean, this is 1993 and they did mention DOS. But reading this, you would not know that most of those DOS machines were running Windows and that they were far, far more numerous than either UNIX or VMS. And Windows NT was already released when that was written.
Not that I am a Microsoft apologist. My main machine was OS/2 back then, I was already using Linux, and ( if I had the money ) NeXTstep would have been my dream platform.