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In retrospect, it’s kind of mystifying that Apple didn’t merge A/UX and System 7 into a next-gen OS.
by avidphantasm 4y ago
In retrospect, it’s kind of mystifying that Apple didn’t merge A/UX and System 7 into a next-gen OS.
- duskwuff 4y agoThey tried. There were multiple death-march projects to modernize classic Mac OS, like Taligent and Copland; all of them failed.
- KerrAvon 4y agoMost of them weren't Unix, though. They all had unique kernels and APIs.
- ncmncm 4y agoA/UX was that OS. Unless you are talking about running Mac programs as separate processes directly on Unix, protected from one another. They certainly could have worked, but would have been as different from regular Mac programs as what they did end up with. Ultimately, they had to "fail" a bunch of times before they admitted that what worked was what should ship, and shipped one of them.
- wsh 4y agoSee this previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585922 (Briefly: licensing costs for UNIX System V.)