Mac OS X (was: offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11)

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Chuck Guzis wrote: Depends on your definition of "that system". Mac OS X is the 10th version of the Mac Operating System. Granted it has almost nothing to do with earlier versions. Mac OS X is the 5th or 6th version (arguements could probably be made for both) of the NeXT Operating System. "Prelude to Rhapsody" was nothing more than OPENSTEP (aka NeXTStep) 4.2, and the first Rhapsody Developers release ran on x86, with the classic Mac OS 8 GUI. I forget when that mess known as Aqua came about. While they've toned it down, I still prefer the classic Mac look and feel. The fact that it ran on x86 was why I had bene expecting for years for Apple to move to Intel, and why they were able to do it so quickly. Personally I would have preferred for them to base Mac OS X on BeOS rather than NeXTStep, as I think the OS would have better performance. Of course if they had, they wouldn't have gotten Steve Jobs back, and without him returning, I suspect Apple would be long dead. Zane