3 ms·

Does anyone else remember when MacOS marketing made UNIX a significant part of its sales pitch? I remember a giant, titanium UNIX logo

mhd 6y ago
Yes, they got it certified with 10.5, I think. Small market these days, although I'm always surprised when I hear that both AIX and HP-UX are still receiving updates...
pram 6y ago
It worked on me! I bought a PowerBook G4 in 2003, when I heard Fink/MacPorts and Jaguar were no longer complete nightmares to use. Been Mac only since then.
kergonath 6y ago
They also had adverts such as this one: http://www.brainmapping.org/MarkCohen/UNIXad.pdf http://www.brainmapping.org/MarkCohen/UNIXad.pdf [edit] also linked by mrpippy below. There used to be things like this on Apple's website, too: https://www.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_for_UNIX_Users_TB_July2011.pdf https://www.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_for_UNIX_Us... I can't find any mention of UNIX in Big Sur's pages, even though it is listed as certified on the Open Group's website.
- PascLeRasc 6y ago
  Those are so cool, thanks for sharing. Can’t believe they got celebrity endorsements like Mark Cohen back then.
jonjacky 6y ago
Yes, I do. I recall they had ads where they showed the amazing things you could do with one-line commands at the shell - they had examples of pipelines including grep and awk etc. I remember being amused that these familiar idioms that had been used in the Unix/Linux world for ages were being presented as amazing new capabilities.
- bluejekyll 6y ago
  For Mac users, this was a new capability. Before that, I was always using remote X sessions to get onto shared Unix systems.
  - jonjacky 6y ago
    What I found amusing at the time was, after years of touting the Mac point-and-click interface as a great improvement over the old-fashioned hard-to-learn obscure command line, they switched to touting the unprecedented power and versatility of ... the command line!
bsharitt 6y ago
That's what got me onto MacOS X for many years.

mhd 6y ago

Yes, they got it certified with 10.5, I think. Small market these days, although I'm always surprised when I hear that both AIX and HP-UX are still receiving updates...

pram 6y ago

It worked on me! I bought a PowerBook G4 in 2003, when I heard Fink/MacPorts and Jaguar were no longer complete nightmares to use. Been Mac only since then.

kergonath 6y ago

They also had adverts such as this one: http://www.brainmapping.org/MarkCohen/UNIXad.pdf http://www.brainmapping.org/MarkCohen/UNIXad.pdf [edit] also linked by mrpippy below. There used to be things like this on Apple's website, too: https://www.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_for_UNIX_Users_TB_July2011.pdf https://www.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_for_UNIX_Us... I can't find any mention of UNIX in Big Sur's pages, even though it is listed as certified on the Open Group's website.

PascLeRasc 6y ago
Those are so cool, thanks for sharing. Can’t believe they got celebrity endorsements like Mark Cohen back then.

jonjacky 6y ago

Yes, I do. I recall they had ads where they showed the amazing things you could do with one-line commands at the shell - they had examples of pipelines including grep and awk etc. I remember being amused that these familiar idioms that had been used in the Unix/Linux world for ages were being presented as amazing new capabilities.

bluejekyll 6y ago
For Mac users, this was a new capability. Before that, I was always using remote X sessions to get onto shared Unix systems.
- jonjacky 6y ago
  What I found amusing at the time was, after years of touting the Mac point-and-click interface as a great improvement over the old-fashioned hard-to-learn obscure command line, they switched to touting the unprecedented power and versatility of ... the command line!

bsharitt 6y ago

That's what got me onto MacOS X for many years.