Not to turn this into a MUG,
but I have to say that Apple has a history (mostly with Jobs at the
helm) of killing off excellent technology and projects. Take the Newton,
and for that matter the AppleII GS, excellent technology, and Jobs
figuratively (as well as literally, according to some) threw them out the
window. Now I know that NextStep was adopted to OpenStep and some of that
technology was opened up in that project, but I don't know what happened
from there. Given Jobs, he probably shelved it and hoped the world would
ignore anything that he didn't deem to be the direction he wants to take
Apple in.
I think Jobs is a great leader and knows how to get people to
accomplish some great things, but I think he also has a belief that he is
the reason Apple is what it is, all I can say to that is one word: Woz....
later,
mbutler
>IIRC, the Next OS, which Steve Jobs started when he left Apple, was based
>on Mach. And then around the time Jobs came back to Apple, Apple bought
>Next, which by that time had dumped its hardware and was working only on
>software. Don't know what happened to the OS after that
>> > > I thought that OS X was mach kernel based, making it a
lightweight
>> > > derivative of a BSD kernel, is that right?
>> > not that I know of... I don't think I've heard anything like that.
>> It is derived from the FreeBSD 3.x kernel in particular. I beleive they
>> have incorporated many changes from 4.x as well. They (Apple) even
hired
>> Jordon Hubbard (a FreeBSD core member and founder) of the FreeBSD
project
>>to
>> join the OSX development team.