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You're partially correct... NeXT's refusal to fully implement Posix is what locked them out of many government contracts, as it was and may still be a requireme
by patrickg_zill 8y ago
You're partially correct... NeXT's refusal to fully implement Posix is what locked them out of many government contracts, as it was and may still be a requirement.
Only the NSA was exempt from this requirement, and they did buy a lot of NeXT's equipment.
- pjmlp 8y agoWhich is actually something that many that use OS X as pretty UNIX don't get. NeXT was never about UNIX, the compatibility that it had was just to ease the porting into the platform, not to get away from it. The Objective-C APIs were what mattered. Likewise when it was reborn as OS X. I attended an Apple session at CERN during the early OS X days, with the same idea being transmitted.