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

From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 13:21:14 PDT

On Apr 24, 2004, at 2:03 PM, kareljansens wrote:

> Op zaterdag 24 april 2004 21:55, schreef Norman Palardy:
>> On Apr 24, 2004, at 1:48 PM, kareljansens wrote:
>>> Mac OSX is essentially a completely new operating system, based on
>>> UNIX and
>>> BSD.
>>
>> No "essentially" about it
>>
>> It IS a new operating system as far as Mac users are concerned.
>>
>> It's heritage is more Next, but even there it's largely revamped from
>> what Next had.
>>
>> It's definitely NOT the mac OS that existed up to 9.2
>
> 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.

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

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