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Very impressive. In 1994 (I think, I can't be sure of the date anymore), I wrote an article in MacWorld France where I said the combination of Apple's GUI with

Very impressive. In 1994 (I think, I can't be sure of the date anymore), I wrote an article in MacWorld France where I said the combination of Apple's GUI with the Unix kernel had a promising future. I didn't know it would take another 10 years...

moxiemk1 16y ago
Something to that effect had been around for a while by then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX Apple has a wealth of fascinating abandoned projects.
- rbanffy 16y ago
  When they fail, they fail with style. I'd love to have an A/UX box. Edit: didn't think of it this way when writing the above, but a unix kernel with an actual, Apple designed, Mac GUI on top was actually a failure... Go figure.
  - moxiemk1 16y ago
    One of the old 68k Apple Workgroup Servers 95s would be awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Workgroup_Server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Workgroup_Server
  - alain94040 16y ago
    A/UX 3.0 on a Mac II is what I used to run my BBS on. Everyone else was using a PC with DOS or some QNX or BSD...
  - chronomex 16y ago
    I've got an IIsi with A/UX on it. It's pretty neat, though a bit slow--9M of RAM isn't quite enough. I'd love to give you a hand setting up your own machine, let me know. :)
    - rbanffy 16y ago
      Sadly, I have no MMU-equipped 68K Mac. A/UX required one. :-/
rbanffy 16y ago
Actually, it's more or less NeXT's GUI with prettier bitmaps. It's just called MacOS. Once back to Apple, Jobs could use some characteristic Mac stuff, like the menu bar on the top of the screen (disfunctional on multi-monitor or big-screen settings), the shelf went to the left, the dock went down, the recycler became a trashcan and the filesystem browser was renamed "Finder" ;-) But it's NeXT to the core. Never wondered why so many important class names start with "NS"?
commandar 16y ago
Not to be argumental, but I feel that 1994 era Macintosh and OS X are quite different beasts UI wise. I can't stand Classic; I love OS X. That said, I do like the things Gnome lifted from Classic, I'm just not sure that your predicition bares out beyond a superficial examination.

moxiemk1 16y ago

Something to that effect had been around for a while by then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX Apple has a wealth of fascinating abandoned projects.

rbanffy 16y ago
When they fail, they fail with style. I'd love to have an A/UX box. Edit: didn't think of it this way when writing the above, but a unix kernel with an actual, Apple designed, Mac GUI on top was actually a failure... Go figure.
- moxiemk1 16y ago
  One of the old 68k Apple Workgroup Servers 95s would be awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Workgroup_Server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Workgroup_Server
- alain94040 16y ago
  A/UX 3.0 on a Mac II is what I used to run my BBS on. Everyone else was using a PC with DOS or some QNX or BSD...
- chronomex 16y ago
  I've got an IIsi with A/UX on it. It's pretty neat, though a bit slow--9M of RAM isn't quite enough. I'd love to give you a hand setting up your own machine, let me know. :)
  - rbanffy 16y ago
    Sadly, I have no MMU-equipped 68K Mac. A/UX required one. :-/

rbanffy 16y ago

Actually, it's more or less NeXT's GUI with prettier bitmaps. It's just called MacOS. Once back to Apple, Jobs could use some characteristic Mac stuff, like the menu bar on the top of the screen (disfunctional on multi-monitor or big-screen settings), the shelf went to the left, the dock went down, the recycler became a trashcan and the filesystem browser was renamed "Finder" ;-) But it's NeXT to the core. Never wondered why so many important class names start with "NS"?

commandar 16y ago

Not to be argumental, but I feel that 1994 era Macintosh and OS X are quite different beasts UI wise. I can't stand Classic; I love OS X. That said, I do like the things Gnome lifted from Classic, I'm just not sure that your predicition bares out beyond a superficial examination.