You’re forgettin literally all the versions of unix that existed at that time, solaris being prominent, but ibm had their own version, and so did many other companies, all of these ram x11 desktops, win95 was much farther from being the only option than windows 10 was before windows 11
Unix existed in an entirely separate market. High-end computers, data centers, CAD workstations, that stuff used Unix. There was no Unix for home users (though I think Microsoft tried to sell that with Xenix at some point?). Novell (owner of the Unix IP at the time) targeted its OS as competition to Windows NT, rather than consumer Windows versions. Sun’s Solaris only came with computers ten or twenty times the price of a normal computer. It’s no wonder Linux and macOS ate Unix’s lunch.
There were early versions of free BSDs and Linux, but those had market shares smaller than OS/2.
You’re forgettin literally all the versions of unix that existed at that time, solaris being prominent, but ibm had their own version, and so did many other companies, all of these ram x11 desktops, win95 was much farther from being the only option than windows 10 was before windows 11
Unix existed in an entirely separate market. High-end computers, data centers, CAD workstations, that stuff used Unix. There was no Unix for home users (though I think Microsoft tried to sell that with Xenix at some point?). Novell (owner of the Unix IP at the time) targeted its OS as competition to Windows NT, rather than consumer Windows versions. Sun’s Solaris only came with computers ten or twenty times the price of a normal computer. It’s no wonder Linux and macOS ate Unix’s lunch.
There were early versions of free BSDs and Linux, but those had market shares smaller than OS/2.