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		huherto on Jan 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RIM Changes Company Name to BlackBerry > Moreover, by the end of the '90s, Sun's original raison d'être --- Unix workstations --- was gone and buried. Never thought about this in this way. It is kind of sad that Sun suffered directly from Linux success.

flomo on Jan 30, 2013 [–]

Unix workstations were largely slaughtered by Windows NT (and faster/cheaper PC hardware). Linux wasn't helping, but it didn't have the professional CAD etc. software at the time.

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