"...and it’s great for interchanging programs between different machines..."
This is like saying "DNA is great for interchanging phenotypes between different locations".
I think that the missing piece as to why it's universal is that Linux was better than DOS, not VMS. You kind-of, sort-of had to have a VAX to run VMS. Your desktop 386 could run SCO.
It's ... useable ( but of low useability ) so the Windows API doomed Linux to success.
This is like saying "DNA is great for interchanging phenotypes between different locations".
I think that the missing piece as to why it's universal is that Linux was better than DOS, not VMS. You kind-of, sort-of had to have a VAX to run VMS. Your desktop 386 could run SCO.
It's ... useable ( but of low useability ) so the Windows API doomed Linux to success.