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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'."
Apple tried to control Linux? Good lord... be thankful they never pulled that off. I can see Apple up there in place of SCO already, and with loads more money and arrogance
I think most Mac users would agree that they benefited tremendously from this event.
It's been 3 days since I've been back on my feet after my anal correction surgery. The doctors told me they have corrected as much of the damage as they could. I think I will get used to having to wear diapers the rest of my life, things could be worse. At least I am still alive, and I can still breathe the fresh air, smell the blossoming flowers, and hear the chirps of courting birds on a spring day. Although my life is much different now, I have the willpower and confidence to move on.
My name is Ben Stanfield (of Macslash fame). I got anally feltched too hard.
I remember the night like it was yesterday. Another fun and energetic Saturday at the discotech in the gay corner of town. I was being my normal flamboyant social butterfly self and talking to all the local cuties. There were a lot of muscly guys there and I must tell you the scent of raw, homosexual energy at the discotec always made the hair on my neck (and other places) stand erect. But there was this one guy who really stood out in the crowd. I would later discover his name was Jamal. The first time I saw his glistening ebony skin at the discotec I knew I wanted him inside me. I've always been good at picking up guys so I walked in my sharp female way, swinging my ass at each step, until I was right in front of that sexy piece of chocolate cake. He had short, frizzy hair, teeth whiter than milk, and a friendly smile that was out of this world. Man, I wanted his dick in my ass so bad. But I had to keep my groove. I said to him in my well crafted lisping tone, "Hey sweetie, I've never your sweet ass in these parts before, want to join me for a drink?" He smiled and replied in a deep yet touching voice, "Heh heh, I sure would you little sex muffin"
This really hit it off from there, We talked and danced and flirted like schoolgirls. I found out he was from a town a few hundred miles away, visiting the big city for a little fun. He had muscles like you wouldn't believe, obviously worked out a lot, I felt like a little strawman compared to him (I'm fashionably slim). I was on top of the world, the envy of every boy at the place, a star. When we were resting from the thumping disco-house music, I asked Jamal if he wanted a bump of crystal meth. He gladly accepted, telling me that in the town where he came from it was hard to find good crystal. I took a bump myself. My nose is no stranger to this wonderful stuff! The energy from the crystal really made us move. His dancing skills were on par with mine (which are excellent, I have danced in a couple of small Broadway-style plays before). I was really getting hot and horny at this point though, I knew we had to find a quiet spot of our own.
We walked very quickly to the bathroom; I couldn't keep my hands off his luscious abs. We found an empty stall and stormed into it, it was a whirling hurricane of passion. The speed made us very energetic. We didn't make out for long before things became hot and heavy. I slipped my hand into his tight leather pants and grabbed his sweet man package. I was thinking at this point 'how did a fire hose end up in here?'. Then I realized this was his cock. It was the longest, thickest anaconda of a cock I ever witnessed. I pulled down his pants, which was difficult because he was getting real hard, real fast. I don't even want to guess how long his penis was, at least 12 inches, maybe more. And it was so think I couldn't even grab around it all with one hand. His cock was sweaty and glistened. I wanted this black staff real bad. I pulled off my own pants and bent down. I stuck the head of his cock in my mouth but it was just too big. I licked the rim a bit but I knew what I REALLY wanted. I turned around and assumed the position I have assumed so many times before. Face down, ass up. That's the way we like to fuck. My anus was not prepared for this brutal thrashing however. I've always described the sensation of anal intercourse as taking a long, incredibly enjoyable shit. But this didn't feel right at all. The walls of my anus were ripping, "PLEASE! Be g
Faggots as far as the eye can see.
Dear Apple,
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
Dear Father O'Day:
Thanks for your letter. Being Catholic myself, I know exactly what you're talking about! It has always been our plan here at Apple Computer Inc to revolutionize personal computing with our high-quality and highly gay products.
I'm happy to answer your letter by letting you know that YES we will be releasing an entire hLife ("homo-life") software line. You'll be able to recognize it in stores by the small stylized logo depicting a large cock entering a tight anus with an Apple logo on it. ("Suddenly it all comes together" indeed!).
Anyway, I hope you and other members of our community will join us on our mission, and purchase the exciting new hLife boxed set. Only the boxed set comes with translucent cock rings!
Sincerely,
Harry Rodman
Vice-president
Homosexual Liaison Services
Apple Computer, Inc.
the mundane chorEs may do, may not
omg i prolly fail even the 52nd yes i do
i am an idiot
I'm drunk. You suck. Eat my penis.
Mac OS sucks. Long live Windows.
See, while we were running stable windows 95 at work, the art department was ALWAYS crashing thier machines due to Macs inablility to properly run more than one process at once without corrupting it's unprotected memory. Merely trying to pring something meant you had to leave your machine till it finished, if you touched it it would crash.
I've never seen a computer that wasn't inherently broken crash as much as OS X. Not even Win ME! How quickly people forget...
... that it took several minutes for my last post to be modded troll. Just goes to show Mac OS is dead. That's what happens when a dead OS like BSD is used as the base.
NOT!!!!!
If BSD is dead then Mac OS X must be dead too :-)
shut the fuck up.
lube or We sell of pro6ress. of BSD/OS. A hobby. It was all
very offensive.
but then you knew that.
which begs the question..... why?
grow up
It's funny, then, that your take on it is "nothing special until OS X," because mine is the exact opposite. I bought one of the original Mac 128k systems around 1984, and I thought it was quite simply the greatest thing ever. Up until then, I'd been using TRS-DOS and CP/M, but this was like having a flying saucer land in your backyard and leave behind some kind of weird high-tech artifact. It was really simple, it worked, and you could do great things with it. The GUI was very responsive, which is kind of amazing when you consider how slow GNOME runs these days on a CPU that's orders of magnitude faster.
After that, I felt that the quality of Apple's system software just got worse and worse. 'Round about MacOS 7 and 8, I really started feeling like the system was so dysfunctional that I couldn't even get my work done on it. You'd boot up, and a gazillion little icons would show up to represent all the extensions being loaded. Some of these extensions would conflict with each other, or with certain applications. You could try turning off as many of them as possible, but in many cases you couldn't tell what it was supposed to be for, or why you had a conflict. People would actually buy software that claimed to be able to detect extension conflicts for you. Application vendors would blame crashes on extension conflicts. And keep in mind that a crash meant your whole system went down, because there was no memory protection.
I tried MacOS X, and my wife still uses it, but I got tired of paying for $130 upgrades in hopes of fixing bugs and instabilities. MacOS X is OK for a proprietary Unix, but I really don't feel it's any more usable than Linux or FreeBSD. People who say it "Just Works" probably haven't spent much time using it. A lot of stuff Just Doesn't Work. Networking, file sharing, and printing are very trouble-prone, and I usually can't figure out what's wrong -- all you get is a really beautiful, lickable, semi-transparent dialog box that says something like "There was an error printing," or "Unable to connect." I keep notebooks of problems I had on various OSes and how I solved them, and the MacOS X one looks very much like the Linux and FreeBSD ones.
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Suck Satan's cock.
Signed,
An Even Happier Internet Explorer + Google Toolbar User
Where's the part M$ windows eat Apple alive?
Where's the part apple stole the mouse idea from Xerox?
Whatever.
Rhapsody has nothing on this.
Lisa
Macintosh
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.1 with more junk
Windows 3.1 with more, more junk
and so on.
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FM Clan
AFAIK, Apple's only had one OS: OS X. Everything before that was really only program loaders and not a full-fledged OS. There was no protected memory, and no virtual memory--things that Windows 3.1 had back in 1989!
fuck you.
Signed,
an Injun