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

From: Grant Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 15:31:54 PDT

In a previous message, Norman Palardy typed vigorously:

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

The underpinnings of OS X probably started in 1988 when the Mach 2.5
kernel and the 4.3 branch of BSD came together to form the first version
of NeXTSTEP (0.8).

http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#06

This is an amazingly fascinating (and ultimately geeky) chart graphing
the history of UNIX-based operating systems. Enjoy.

g.

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