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by lukeh 8y ago
The macOS kernel has lots of BSD bits in it [1], it's not a classic microkernel in that sense. [1] https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/tree/master/bsd
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by lukeh 8y ago
And worth it to step inside Alan Turing’s office (to be clear, that’s in a nearby but separate museum at Bletchley Park).
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by lukeh 8y ago
Thank you for this tip: I saw your comment this morning and went today (am visiting London). Great stuff. Not as much vintage “modern” computing as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View but lots of amazing things, and of course lots
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by lukeh 8y ago
Indeed!
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by lukeh 8y ago
Which they did, based on DrawBridge. It’s pretty interesting, basically it’s the NT kernel as a library OS which hosts native PE binaries. There are some white papers around.
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by lukeh 8y ago
Agreed. Felt the same way listening to some AI-generated classical music, too.
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by lukeh 8y ago
Around 1995 I built some configuration management software based on M4, because I thought it was cool! Actually, it didn't do much in the way of management, but it did allow the ISP I was working for at the time to provision a customer
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by lukeh 8y ago
GCD is. NSOperationQueue is too tightly coupled to Foundation to be useful/relevant on other platforms.
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by lukeh 8y ago
Proprietary, but there’s also Dante Virtual Soundcard.
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by lukeh 8y ago
I think OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0, the version with the new UI that never shipped post-beta, may have been based on 4.4BSD. It wasn’t until Rhapsody that this was dusted off with bits pulled in from FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (you can see this
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by lukeh 8y ago
And Rhapsody (Mac OS X Server 1.0) shipped a developer preview on Intel, including UI (this was pre-Aqua and Mach 3.0, but otherwise a lot of similarities to MacOS X 10.0).
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by lukeh 8y ago
Sounds like it might have been a demo of DBKit or EOF (NeXT's ORMs).
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by lukeh 9y ago
From memory, they did swap out Mach from the version 2.5 used in NS/OS for version 3 from MkLinux (which was from OSF). This was at the time of the Rhapsody to OS X transition. My memory is hazy on the BSD kernel mode component history
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by lukeh 9y ago
Group policies were introduced with Windows 2000 and Active Directory.
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by lukeh 9y ago
Amongst other things I remember his columns in NeXTworld (sp?) fondly.
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by lukeh 9y ago
On OS X, open/save panels run in a different process via ViewBridge, at least they did last time I checked.
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by lukeh 9y ago
Shazam is just another platform to service like iTunes or Spotify.
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by lukeh 9y ago
Yup. That was all of us once. (Well, those of us obsessed with computing at that age!)
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by lukeh 9y ago
This is an incredible combination of both reverse engineering skill and communication ability. So good!
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by lukeh 9y ago
I built one over ten years ago, and it's true, it's a difficult area to disrupt for these reasons.
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by lukeh 9y ago
Right, this is an important point which appears to be have been missed elsewhere in this thread (and was probably assumed knowledge in the original link).
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by lukeh 9y ago
ATCs are great: they make you work hard (indeed, many classic records don't sound that crash hot on them). If it sounds good on them, though, it'll often translate really well.
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by lukeh 9y ago
They've been in MIT Kerberos for years now (since 2009 I think?). And at least partly in Heimdal for around the same time.
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by lukeh 9y ago
Right, but the BSD components got a big makeover post-NeXT, largely thanks to FreeBSD (but also NetBSD and OpenBSD).
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by lukeh 9y ago
Yup, NEXTSTEP was pretty nice. I still miss its UI. I think I started using it in 1993 (just).
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by lukeh 9y ago
Amusingly enough, the audio data packing in AVB/TSN comes from FireWire via IEC 61883-6. AVB seems to be on its way to irrelevance in the pro audio/video world in favor of AES67/SMPTE 2110, which are Layer 3. Requiring switch
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by lukeh 9y ago
Gold.
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by lukeh 9y ago
Paul is definitely a very smart guy and something of a programming hero of mine. I did have the good fortune to have dinner with him once, although I think I was too shy to really ask him anything. The DCE library “surprisingly distributed
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by lukeh 10y ago
iBridge, eh? I can see where this is going...
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by lukeh 10y ago
Recording studios with Harrison Series 12s are still stuck on very old 030s for their automation...

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