Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:07:34 -0700 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@ThirdAge.com> To: Sean Harding <sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Terry Brady <bradyt@choiceconnect.com.au>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Apples and oranges? FreeBSD and MacOSX Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980723110734.017d5380@204.74.82.151> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.00.9807221904280.11706-100000@gutenberg.uoregon .edu> References: <19980723103937.20775@welearn.com.au>
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At 07:05 PM 7/22/98 -0700, Sean Harding wrote: >On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > >> If you are going to install some unix system now, you couldn't get anything >> closer than FreeBSD to do the task well. Some parts of your learning will be > >This is true of free distributions, but if you go commercial, >OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP is *far* closer to Rhapsody/MacOS X Server than FreeBSD >is ever likely to be. Um, forgive me if I'm clue-deprived here, but I thought MacOS X was a strategy for backing away from Rhapsody for desktop machines. >From my reading, it was to be a revved up MacOS on which developers could count on a subset of the former APIs being executed in a preemptive multitasking, memory protected environment. Basically, most of what Copeland was to have been. I didn't think there was any Unix involved, although it would make sense to use what they have. Does anyone know for sure that I'm wrong? -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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