Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 20:47:36 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <013e01c25c1f$32162990$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <33574C2A-C80D-11D6-9F0B-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>
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Kevin writes: > OS X. OS X is a proprietary, pre-packaged version of UNIX with a huge amount of specialized code. In fact, it's essentially like a version of Windows, except that Apple didn't write a lot of the code (presumably because Apple can no longer afford to develop complete operating systems). The way I see it, OS X has all the advantages and disadvantages of any other proprietary OS, such as Windows or the old Mac OS. I'd expect the borrowed part to be as stable as any vanilla version of UNIX, but I suspect that all of Apple's code will destabilize the OS overall in any but the most predictable roles--that is pretty much inevitable. Still, I'd also expect it to run a lot more reliably than the old Mac OS, which was badly outdated (it predated the old 16-bit Windows 3.1, IIRC). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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