12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
6:33 a.m.
On 12 December 2011 13:26, TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- 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
It certainly did, yes.
Looking back, with hindsight, rather than all the time and effort and
money it wasted on Copland and "Pink" and Taligent, it should have
ported A/UX to PowerPC and updated it. The future was right there,
staring it in the face, and the company never noticed.
But A/UX was a sideline, whereas OS X was *the* bet-the-company
lifeline to the future.
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.
That's a bit harsh. "Jaguar" - 10.2 - was pretty decent and entirely
usable. A friend of mine ran his business on 10.2 up until 2008 or so.
10.1 was ropey and 10.0 was really just a public beta, whereas the
"Public Beta" was more like an alpha. :?)
But it was entirely usable from 10.2 and really just improved from
then until 10.4, which covers right up until the Intel transition.
It's the versions after that which, while still improving in many
ways, are also removing features that some of us find important...
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