up there with “Fundamentally Transform” and Obama.
Now Linux on the other hand is happily trapped snuggly in the late 1970’s unix shells and api’s.
I started in UNIX in 1980. Sysadmin and software developer on mainframes and super-minis. UNIX-1100 on Sperry-UNIVAC 1100-64 and 1100-92. Western Electric 3B20S (where C++ first emerged in the Bell System where I worked), Unisys 7000 (CCI Power6/32), HP9000 running PA-RISC HP-UX 9, SunOS on SPARC, Xenix on 68000, HP-UX 7.0 running on 68030 (kernel develpment contract), Xenix on 80286 PC, 80386SX. Linux came later as a knock off of Minix (a teaching version of UNIX). Linus got lots of help of the UNIX community and visits to UseNIX. Today, I work mostly in Linux for that style of OS and in Windows 10 for Windows hosted stuff.
X Windows is still the primary windowing system for UNIX/Linux. I did lots of work in the X11/Motif world starting back in 1986 when HP gave us a sneak peek at their Cupertino office. It's still a fine windowing paradigm. Most of what we build today is browsers connected to web servers via TCP/IP. Endless "frameworks" to wrap the basic HTML/CSS/Javascript into a palatable form. Server side is mostly Java today. It was heavy C++ when I started building server code in 1983. I'm wrangling some "old" OSGi code this week and wrapping it in Spring Boot REST interfaces in place of Java RMI. The whole product goes into a Docker container and gets deployed with Kubernetes. Life goes on.