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From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk Books free - Melbourne
On 11 December 2011 14:32, David Riley <fraveydank
at gmail.com> wrote:
Ahahaha! Well, true. But it's changing. Don't forget that Mac OS X is
officially UNIX?, as approved by the Open Group. And it's the most
widely-licensed UNIX? there has ever been, either in terms of numbers
of users or in terms of number of systems. I suspect that its sales of
several hundred million licences means that it has outsold /all/ other
commercial Unices there have ever been /put together/.
(That's excluding the rather greater number of iPhones, iPads and iPod
Touches, which run the same core OS with a different GUI.)
And yet it's very friendly. Arguably the friendliest, most accessible
modern desktop OS.
Also, it might amuse ClassicCompers to know that there is now a
community of people interested in running "classic" early versions of
OS X on older Macs, especially PowerPC Macs. Our own Cameron Kaiser
being something of a hero in this regard. ;?D
Well Apple put more effort into OSX then they did with their first UNIX
(A/UX). OSX pre 10.3.x sucks.