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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'."

3 of 334 comments (clear)

  1. Re:MkLinux by negface · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just summoned an odd image of Jobs fighting McBride in my brain...

  2. Re:nothing special until OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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

  3. Most evil.. by xzoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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. ;)