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> Apple finally decided to overhaul their filesystem, but other things like the kernel, the API etc. still need the treatment. And a large proportion of the ke
by gsnedders 8y ago
> Apple finally decided to overhaul their filesystem, but other things like the kernel, the API etc. still need the treatment.
And a large proportion of the kernel and APIs very obviously go all the way back to early NeXT days; they're really as old as WinNT is.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoOlder, actually... NeXT 1.0 was released in 1989; first version of NT shipped in 1993.
- scruffyherder 8y agoNT shipped in 1993, but MS took on the NT project in 1988, and Cutler had the idea much earlier. NeXTSTEP 0.8 was 1988 as well, along with 4.3BSD Tahoe which the base was a part of, but of course 4.3BSD owes everything to Unix 32/v and everything before hand.....