[pjmlp]

Not at all, except for Hotmail and Yahoo, I never saw it being used personally.

In fact, had I not bought a set of Walnut Creek CD-ROMs, I would never had used it in first place, and never again since those days, excluding derivatives like macOS and Orbis OS.

Which is why I asserted with good POSIX support, the world today probably would be Windows NT linage on the PCs, plus the commercial UNIXes everywhere else.

[hnlmorg]

You work for mainly Windows shops though don’t you?

My experience was very different in the 90s.

Solaris, FreeBSD and Next were very widely used. The only times I saw NT was in edu, government, and a random publishing house (which ran pirated copies of NT 4 on the servers and Mac OS 8 everywhere else).

That publisher is an interesting chapter in my career on its own actually…