I didn't work for Apple, I worked for UniSoft who did the Unix port to the Mac2 (we got half of the original batch of Mac 2 proto boards, I got to debug [and fi

I didn't work for Apple, I worked for UniSoft who did the Unix port to the Mac2 (we got half of the original batch of Mac 2 proto boards, I got to debug [and fix] the hardware). After we handed it over the group who did the UI work were pretty small within Apple - I think it was mostly politics, my view of Apple in those days (and the few years after) was that everything was politics, I remember the firewire guys coming around and shilling for supportive developer comments to try and keep their project afloat at one point. I'd guess that 2/3 of every cool thing designed at Apple got shelved, people who had poured several years of their lives would walk. A/UX died more slowly, switching to the PPC killed it, Apple decided not to do a Unix port (we probably could have done one faster than getting the MacOS working)