11 Aug
2007
11 Aug
'07
10:04 a.m.
At 12:18 PM -0400 8/11/07, der Mouse wrote:
[quote from the NYT]
Actually with the next release it is Mac OS X is UNIX. Leopard has
attained the UNIX 03 certification from the Open Group. The only
other certified OS's are from Sun, IBM, and HP.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2007/07/leopard_gets_un.…
If you have a hard time accepting this, you're not alone, I know I
do. Though this makes me even more curious to see Leopard. Of
course *finally* having virtual desktops is enough to make me want it.
Zane
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In the [']80s, [UNIX] had a significant
impact in the computer
workstation and minicomputer markets, although it never gained a
significant foothold in the personal computer business until Steven
P. Jobs brought a version of Unix with him when he returned to Apple
Computer in 1997.
[response to it]
What does Apple and Steve Jobs have to do with
Unix?
They gave Unix a foothold in the personal computer business when they
switched from MacOS to something Unix-based. I'd guess that, to a
first approximation, all personal computers running anything Unixy are
Macs running OSX. (A second approximation would recognize Linux.
Everything else is even more fringe.)
Yes, I know OSX is Mach under the hood. For the NYT's purposes (and a
lot of others, too) it's Unix.