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C'mon, really? You're saying that Apple was technologically incapable of building a multitasking OS. I don't know where to begin constructing an argument to re

by 5hoom 15y ago

C'mon, really? You're saying that Apple was technologically incapable of building a multitasking OS. I don't know where to begin constructing an argument to refute this. How about, um, I don't know, the existence of OSX?

prodigal_erik 15y ago
They tried, failed, and gave up. Apple's shiny next-gen multitasking OS was codenamed Pink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent#Pink_and_Blue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent#Pink_and_Blue). It was spun off as Taligent, pivoted into a UI toolkit, and sank mostly forgotten. So they acquired NeXTStep along with Jobs, rebranded that as MacOS X, and started extending it. At least they had the foresight to maintain the port to commodity x86 hardware that NeXT, another Microsoft/OEM victim, never really managed to sell.