building a PDP11 from the things you find at home

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat Jul 28 19:24:01 2001

>Personally, I think there's too much UNIX in OSX. They not only took the
>kernel, but the entire environment as well.
>Otherwise, (this wioll keep us within the ten-year rule), it reminds me of
>MiNT/MultiTOS. Incompetent OS programmers who can't make a functioning, full-
>featured system of their own just take a kernel off the rack and add some
>glue. Granted, OSX is an entirely new system of its own whereas MiNT retained
>TOS capability. But it's a tried and old concept.

        It's still easy to see the NeXTstep heritage in OS X too. If
a person is familiar with the way that NeXTstep/OpenStep does things,
OS X should be an easy transition. There's no doubt that NeXTstep
made for a more powerful OS but did the things taken from the classic
Mac OS make it easy enough to use for even a beginner?

        Jeff
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