>Hummmm last I heard... Apple's OSX was built on top of FreeBSD, not
>NEXTSTEP.
OS X at the bottom is MACH, the BSD interface has largely been updated using FreeBSD/Darwin.
I'm not going to bother with the dates, but here is a rough timeline....
-Apple buys NeXT
-Steve Jobs takes over
-Prelude to Rhapsody released at WWDC (it's really OPENSTEP 4.2, runs on NeXT, x86, and select HP & Sun)
-Rhapsody DR1 (or whatever it was called) release, offers true Mac OS Classic interface on x86 hardware! Very cool!
-More Developer releases
-Aqua Interface Released (YUCK!)
-More Developer releases
-Public Beta
-10.0 Released
-Various . Upgrades
-10.1 Released as free download
-Various . Upgrades
-10.2 Released as Pay Upgrade
-Various . Upgrades and now at 10.2.6
I was really excited about Mac OS X *UNTIL* the Aqua mess. Then I got 10.0 and it didn't support classic Appletalk servers (my OpenVMS server serves up data via classic Appletalk), plus all my apps were Classic so I never made the switch. I tried 10.1.something and found it supported classic Appletalk servers, but I still didn't switch.
Finally for some reason I bought 10.2 about a month and half ago, and I've been using it since. The classic environment works really well, and I'm slowly switching the apps I use most to be native OS X apps. Also, it now has a usable X-Windows implementation that Apple provides. The main thing I don't like about it, is that it seems to be a HUGE memory hog! As in I've apparently got basically all of my 756MB physical memory full, and 4.5GB of virtual memory used! One thing I do like is that surfing on my G4/450 using Safari is about as fast as using IE under XP on my 1.6Ghz Pentium IV!
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
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Received on Thu May 29 2003 - 12:09:00 BST