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It's a Unix system. I know this.
by edgeman27 13y ago
It's a Unix system. I know this.
- alex_anglin 13y agoExcept that the 'Ah Ah Ah You didn't say the magic word' sequence shows up on a Mac desktop.
- S_A_P 13y agoThat movie was ahead of its time and predicted a unix based Mac OS. Prophetic indeed Newman!
- scelerat 13y agoApple already had a unix-based Mac OS for five years by the time Jurassic Park came out, A/UX. My first computer job was at a nascent ISP around this time and most of the servers (mail, www, accounting) were Quadras running A/UX. One IIfx with several massive (for the time) hard drives for Usenet. It was basically the System 7 (Mac) UI bolted on top of System V unix. http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=A/UX http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=A/UX
- jnazario 13y agoalso MachTen, Tenon's UNIX on MacOS. it ran as a process on top of MacOS, not in place of (as A/UX did). i never got my hands on A/UX but ran MachTen for a while in grad school (i was too poor to own an SGI). this was before LinuxPPC and MkLinux/PPC were around, and before UN*X ports to mac68ks were working. a comparison of the two from 1993. http://www.opus1.com/www/jms/machten.html http://www.opus1.com/www/jms/machten.html FWIW BeOS made me feel as excited to use a system as IRIX did back when i first used it.
- vidarh 13y ago"Everybody" had Unix systems back in the day. People forget that there was a time when it was seen as critical to have a Unix offering to be taken seriously in certain markets. On the "low end", besides Apple's A/UX, Microsoft had Xenix and Commodore had Amiga Unix.
- SkyMarshal 13y agohttp://reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem http://reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem There's a subreddit for everything.