Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 02:11:51 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@freebsd.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting Comment about Mac OS X Message-ID: <3C737667.7A05B7C9@mindspring.com> References: <20020219225335.U48401@blossom.cjclark.org>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > Interesting remark in the last sentence I quote. I'm sure there are > elements of NeXt in there, but I don't think that statement is > accurate. Last I knew, Mac OS X was primarily BSD-based, specifically, > FreeBSD. Interestingly, it came down to a difference of $5M in price, not the reported $75M, where Gassee would not budge, when Apple was in talks with Be to acquire BeOS (according to insiders). Another interesting tidbit here is that the Microsoft EULA did, at one time, prohibit the use of non-Microsoft boot blocks when booting a Microsoft OS, or the license was voided by the user, so they have a small case there. The "and design an OS the right way. And that is exactly what they did." comment is, at best, laughable. The OS lacks per user credentials, which makes it fairly useless as a file server, and also fairly useless for multiuser operation, and also fairly useless as a network client machine, since there's no barrier point where you could implement single sign-on (Windows 98 corrected this defect of Windows 95, which would let you start the task manager and run the explorer.exe program without logging in through the credential capture point -- i.e. it was not a barrier). The reference to NeXTStep is valid: the Mac OS X is a Mach based system with a BSD UNIX single server on top of it, just as NeXTStep was. FreeBSD is the single server, and provides driver, FS, and other technology. I can't speak for whether Aqua or Carbon are derived from the NeXTStep GUI, but I'd be incredibly surprised if they threw that code away, after paying $400M for NeXT, Inc.. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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