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OSX is one of Steve Jobs' least-discussed successes. The original Mac, Pixar, the iPod, the iPhone are all talked about -- but without OSX as a Unix-based OS,
by calcsam 10y ago
OSX is one of Steve Jobs' least-discussed successes.
The original Mac, Pixar, the iPod, the iPhone are all talked about -- but without OSX as a Unix-based OS, application-development on Macs, and adoption of Macs in the '00s would have been much slower and more sparse.
- m_mueller 10y agoAlso, without NextStep Steve Jobs wouldn't have had a way into Apple again - Apple would look completely different today if it still existed at all.
- bluejekyll 10y agoTechnically it was a Mach based OS, with a POSIX compatibility layer from BSD. The distinction is important IMO, because I beleave part of the ease of them supporting multiple platforms so easily is because it was all built around a microkernel. Now Apple has more of a hybrid with XNU, but many of the core concepts of Mach are still there.