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The UNIX heritage of macOS may be from the Apollo era, but so is the UNIX heritage of Linux, an operating system that pretty much powers the infrastructure of t
by ThJ 8y ago
The UNIX heritage of macOS may be from the Apollo era, but so is the UNIX heritage of Linux, an operating system that pretty much powers the infrastructure of the Internet. Using macOS isn't so different from using something like Ubuntu Linux. There's a polished user interface and a UNIX-like system underneath that can be accessed with a terminal emulator. And Windows? Well, the guy who originally designed Windows NT was also involved with the Apollo-era VMS operating system, and incorporated a lot of VMS-like stuff in there. The NT kernel still forms the basis of Windows 10. TL;DR: Don't knock old things just because they're old.
- MagicPropmaker 8y agoThe initial release of VMS was 1977, well after Apollo. And NT's initial release was first release in July 1983, leveraging the hard lessons learned from Unix and VMS.
- ThJ 8y agoLast Apollo mission was in 1972, so only 5 years after. I honestly didn't check the date of the last Apollo mission but I knew it was in the 1970s. Point is, both UNIX and VMS are ancient, and it doesn't matter, which was my entire point...