In the 1990s, Microsoft developed software (Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and Outlook Express) for both Solaris and HP-UX — which brought a small dash of “Windows-y-ness” to UNIX-land. But did you know that Apple brought the entire Mac System 7 to Solaris and HP-UX? It’s true! First released in 1994 — and discontinued in 1998 — it was called “Macintosh Application Environment”. And it r
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