Darwin will eat Linux for breakfast
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Linux is already dead: every major ISV is backing away from any new committments (and, yes, I have the urls - so dont even bother).
Darwin has the intrinsic advantage that more drivers and apps will be availible just by piggy-backing on a *mass-market* platform (OS) that is the CORE committment of a major OEM (Apple).
Everything that Linux can do Darwin can do better.
Long term advantages for Darwin over linux:
* Microkernels have suprior architecture
* BSD is the 'mother' of all */nix innovation: linux is just a clone/hack.
It's not even fair to include "OSX" in the comparison with linux: Darwin beats linux all by itself.
And Darwin (now) runs on x86.
Watch out.
Re: Apple is trying to kill OSX!
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If you actulay knew anything about Cocoa, you would know that key architectural parts of OpenStep EOF (Enterprise Objects Frameworks) had to fight for its very life (along with ObjectiveC generally)! - to wit: (inter alia)
1) ObjectiveC is in fact being folded,spindled and mutalated by Apple in favour of Java!
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/2000-06-21.01.htm l
2) WO has been Java for nearly a year! If you actually knew anthing about WebObjects, you would know that V5 will be released in about 6 weeks!
Apple is trying to do to NextStep what IBM did to OS/2!
They are trying to destroy one of their few sources of competitive advantage!
Re:Rant: L'aveugle et le paralytique
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OS/2 was awesome!
And OS/2 did not _die_
OS/2 for x86 is being KILLED by IBM itself! (there is a special place in hell reserved for you, Thompson!)
OS/2 for MACH on PowerPC was stanglled by Microsoft-loving careerists!
We are talking circa 1994, people, SEVEN YEARS AGO!
If the sabateurs had not blown it up, OS/2 would have hosted OpenDoc as the transition to Taligent.
And THAT was GEM!!
And a TRAVESTY that it was orphaned.
OSX is simply lucky that Windoze is sooo dumb and *nix is sooo opaque.
Cuz without OS/2 to show it up, OSX wins by default.
regards:dlf
ps: yes, I know that Taligent was a co-venture between Apple and IBM: but we are talking OSX vector (Openstep) and an OS2 vector (Taligent), for the sake of contrast.
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Linux is already dead: every major ISV is backing away from any new committments (and, yes, I have the urls - so dont even bother).
Darwin has the intrinsic advantage that more drivers and apps will be availible just by piggy-backing on a *mass-market* platform (OS) that is the CORE committment of a major OEM (Apple).
Everything that Linux can do Darwin can do better.
Long term advantages for Darwin over linux:
* Microkernels have suprior architecture
* BSD is the 'mother' of all */nix innovation: linux is just a clone/hack.
It's not even fair to include "OSX" in the comparison with linux: Darwin beats linux all by itself.
And Darwin (now) runs on x86.
Watch out.
1) ObjectiveC is in fact being folded,spindled and mutalated by Apple in favour of Java!
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/2000-06-21.01.htm l
2) WO has been Java for nearly a year! If you actually knew anthing about WebObjects, you would know that V5 will be released in about 6 weeks!
Apple is trying to do to NextStep what IBM did to OS/2!
They are trying to destroy one of their few sources of competitive advantage!
OS/2 was awesome!
And OS/2 did not _die_
OS/2 for x86 is being KILLED by IBM itself! (there is a special place in hell reserved for you, Thompson!)
OS/2 for MACH on PowerPC was stanglled by Microsoft-loving careerists!
We are talking circa 1994, people, SEVEN YEARS AGO!
If the sabateurs had not blown it up, OS/2 would have hosted OpenDoc as the transition to Taligent.
And THAT was GEM!!
And a TRAVESTY that it was orphaned.
OSX is simply lucky that Windoze is sooo dumb and *nix is sooo opaque.
Cuz without OS/2 to show it up, OSX wins by default.
regards:dlf
ps: yes, I know that Taligent was a co-venture between Apple and IBM: but we are talking OSX vector (Openstep) and an OS2 vector (Taligent), for the sake of contrast.