From: healyzh at
aracnet.com
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:04:54 -0800
Subject: Mac OS X (was: offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11)
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Sure--and OS X is the 10th version of that
system. ;)
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
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