A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 25, 2006 @02:48AM from the does-turtle-count dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As part of his 1680-page book Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, Amit Singh of kernelthread.com wrote a very detailed technical history of Apple's operating systems. Since he had to cut down on the history chapter because of the book's already too-large size, most of this chapter didn't make it to the printed book. Singh has made available the history chapter as a free PDF. The file is 140 pages long, and is generously filled with figures and screenshots. It starts with the internals of the original Apple I and goes through a tour of all operating systems Apple dabbled with, including internals of A/UX, Lisa OS, and such. It even covers details of outside influences like the Xerox Alto, STAR System, Smalltalk, and Sketchpad, and closer to home things like Mach, NeXTStep, and OpenStep."

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Re:What a load of crap by ettlz · 2006-07-25 04:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What it should really say can be generated by the Python

def blankpage(): print "This page intentionally left blank except for a message stating `", blankpage() print "'"
(damn Slash indentation destroyer) but I think they renormalised it.
Black Dog by BodhiCat · 2006-07-25 04:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It looks like a great chapter, I am going to print it out then go to my favorite cafe, Black Dog, to peruse it. I think that counts as work hours. Much thanks to Mr. Singh for providing the PDF to Slashdotters and the web community.