I think it was the year or so after Time Machine launched that a bunch of banners up in Moscone Center had us convinced of a grand Sun / Apple tech marriage. R

I think it was the year or so after Time Machine launched that a bunch of banners up in Moscone Center had us convinced of a grand Sun / Apple tech marriage. Re Scheme: It was the first choice of Javascript’s inventor, Brenden Eich, but the suits didn’t go for it. If you want to have a good cry, look up DSSSL and imagine the alternate timeline with S-expressions instead of HTML, DSSSL instead of CSS, and Scheme instead of Javascript. Pretty sure there’s also a robust open source OpenStep or NeWS ecosystem instead of X11, Al Gore was a two termer, and 9/11 never happened.