How the Mac was born... supposedly...

I know it *existed* then, and for a couple of years. I don't recall it being a player though, like the little unixes were. Once they were ported you got the whole thing. So were the unixes. It's the same as today; download for free, buy a distro copy and buy support. BSD/I we paid for when we went pro, and could bug them for fixes, etc. This is bordering on religion, I don't care enough about the religious aspects to argue it. My experience was, all of the smallish end sites, and tiny, small and medium ISPs, developers, etc all ran unix or KA9Q on DOS. San Francisco and Silicon Valley, 1992 - 1996. Never ran across a linux during that time, and I used to work on a lot of systems, travelled to the Least Coast to talk with other little ISPs, I don't remember a single linux system in use. Again, it's not a criticism, it's only timing.