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by madkangas 3216 days ago
Actually, NeXT did just that. OPENSTEP ran on Mach, Solaris, HPUX, and (amazingly) Windows NT. It didn't make a difference for NeXT's market share.

NeXT was acquired by Apple. 6 months later... Jobs was in charge, and history unfolded.

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Oh of course you're right (/facepalm).

But does/did Solaris have anything worthwhile to offer over BSD/Mach.