Windows NT was about to take over the corporate world and wipe Unix and mainframes off the map - and every magazine columnist and pundit agreed that's what would happen.

"Y2K won't be a problem because the last mainframe will be unplugged by then."

Somehow the dinosaurs didn't die and some pesky penguin has been eating up most of the Unix conversions. How could so many leading pundits have been wrong? It just doesn't seem possible

But behold mighty Vista and tremble!