Re: [NTLK] [OT] Apple, Macintosh, 3rd Parties, and Market Share

From: kareljansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 14:27:17 PDT


Op zaterdag 24 april 2004 22:21, schreef Norman Palardy:
> On Apr 24, 2004, at 2:03 PM, kareljansens wrote:

> > That's why I said that comparing it to the change to Windows XP was
> > silly...
>
> Yes.
> NT was a new OS compared to Windows 95
> A lot of the rest of Win2K & Win XP has been reskinning it.

Windows NT predated Windows 95.
Windows 95 was nothing more than Windows 3.11 for Workgroups with new
pictures.
Windows 3.XX was essentially a DOS-extender.

> OS X is a new OS compared to OS 9, but it has a long heritage prior to
> being called OS X

Yeah: NeXT, BSD, UNIX,...

But don't get me wrong, as O/Ss go, OS X ain't half bad.

Karel Jansens

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