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A History of Apple's Operating Systems

Posted by michael on from the where-they-went-wrong dept.

jpkunst writes "Amit Singh of kernelthread.com has written A History of Apple's Operating Systems. From the introduction: 'This document discusses operating systems that Apple has created in the past, and many that it tried to create. Through this discussion, we will come across several technologies the confluence of which eventually led to Mac OS X'."

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  1. Re:MkLinux by Endive4Ever · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, what Apple did was 'throw a bone' to the Mac community by developing a version of 'Linux' to run in a sandbox setup they arranged.

    Near as I can tell, the main reason was to discourage hackers from reverse engineering the Apple hardware/firmware. Give them a toy to play with and distract them.

    For that reason, there still is no low-level bootloader if you want to run NetBSD or any other freenix on classic Mac hardware. The NetBSD on my SE/30 boots out of a little vestigal MacOS app, which auto-runs after MacOS loads.

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