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.
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.