From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 11:15:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01712 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:15:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stage1.thirdage.com (stage1.ThirdAge.com [204.74.82.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01684 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:15:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jal@ThirdAge.com) Received: from gigi (budd.ThirdAge.com [204.74.82.199]) by stage1.thirdage.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA18096; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980723110734.017d5380@204.74.82.151> X-Sender: jal@204.74.82.151 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:07:34 -0700 To: Sean Harding , Sue Blake From: Jamie Lawrence Subject: Re: Apples and oranges? FreeBSD and MacOSX Cc: Terry Brady , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: References: <19980723103937.20775@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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