>-----Original Message----- >From: Gilbert Fernandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:30 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status >of6.0 for production systems) > > >> Consider that when MacOS moved to UNIX that all the UNIX software >> vendors could now easily port their applications to Macintosh. > >Excuse me, sir. > >Your discussion is pretty impressive and I have been reading it >with care. Honestly, I am far from having a distant enough picture >of the whole say to comment about what the discussion is about >(and to be honest, I am not even sure I do know exactly what >the point of the discussion is - please forgive me). > >But "Unix" has been available for MacOS users for a long time, >far before MacOS X went out and using a Mach kernel. >
The problem is though, that it didn't have Apple's marketing muscle behind it. The thing that made Apple's decision to switch to MacOS X so great was that they abandonded the old macOS Classic. There is no upgrade path so customers of the Mac either have to learn MacOS X or give up the Mac entirely. Most of them did give up the old OS. If Apple had done the dual OS route like they did with AU/X then nobody would have switched from whatever the OS 9 descendent would have been to MacOS X, and MacOS X would now be a footnote in the history of UNIX. People are, after all, somewhat lazy. For a brief period of time Apple had a flash of lucidity and realized they are a software company, that is what birthed MacOS X. Unfortunately that brief flash seems to have faded and they are right back to believing that the software is just a thing used to sell hardware. That puts them in direct competition with the low-ballers like Dell. Maybe one day Apple will understand that there is nobody out there in the low-baller market competing with MacOS X. Ted _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
