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A History of Apple's Operating Systems
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'."
I'd like to remind everyone that the greatest computer ever created runs Mac osX native. As if it woudn't.
tcd004
You just summoned an odd image of Jobs fighting McBride in my brain...
My first love... System 6. : \
In other news, bloggers' plagiarism scientifically proven.
"Wired has up a story about HP, as part of a larger drive to figure out how ideas ideas 'infect' large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers."
---- Just another spud server.
The Apple IIe was godly. I was too young to own one, but my cousin got one when he was like 15 or something and the first thing he did was print off a huge banner: "THE APPLE IIe, THE ULTIMATE" in dot-matrix and hung it up across the family room.
Hideous, but awesome.
"I'm part of a new subcategory of Mac owners--I didn't get one until OS X 10.1"
You latecomer. You poser. You'll never be part of the club. NEVER!
Resentfully yours,
The Mac Elite
It was introduced at a price of $666 that included 4K bytes of RAM and a tape of Apple BASIC.
;)
And you all thought Microsoft was the evil company.
Why are a large number of slashdot stories directly copied off other sites? They give no credit to the original site at all.
This story could have easily said: "jpkunst noticed over at macslash.org they are running a story about an article on kernelthread by Amit Singh etc etc...
In many cases these are copied word for word from the originating site, however thankfully our submitter took the time to rewrite a different summary for this particular story.
Isn't one of the main points of the GPL et al that you have to give credit to the original authors? How very hypocritical of the Slashdot editors to let things like this through.
Yes. The GUI sucks. I have NO idea why they didn't just plop OS 9 onto whatever OS they wanted. All the developers have to jump through their own ears anyway.
I liken the MacX GUI on Unix to a large rug thrown over a floor with various imprefections in it, not a few of which are open to the basement.
Oh, and did I mention: it eats the machine like Pacman! Gads, I get onto OS 9 sometimes and am shocked at the speed. Of course, thats until I use almost any modern wintel machine, which makes me feel like I've been living in South Carolina and suddenly I'm in NY City: it moves faster. And you do have to put up with a few unsavories.
Write OS that is decent for the era (1984).
Add hierarchical file system (1986).
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Buy NeXT (12/96).
Massage it into something Mom can use (2001).
Profit!
I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.
I vote for the word "imprefections" to be added to the English language.
Whatever.
Rhapsody has nothing on this.
Ha! I got modded as a Troll!
Would anyone seriously consider TWM to be more attractive than anything from Apple?
ROTFLMAO!
The sarcasm-challenged are out tonight!
You just reminded me -- I had a friend who had a Quadra named Godzilla (one of the minifridge-sized ones the old Avids used to come in, with flames painted on it). He liked to name his System 7 harddisks 'New York' and 'Tokyo'... just so that when you held down option on boot it presented you with:
Are you sure you want to rebuild Tokyo?
It's the little things.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.