Xah Lee's Unixism

[Walter Bushell]

In article <877jrcjy1n.fsf at thalassa.informatimago.com>,
 Pascal Bourguignon <spam at mouse-potato.com> wrote:

> "John Thingstad" <john.thingstad at chello.no> writes:
> > Note the Mac OS 10 / Darwin uses a unix kernel because of all the
> > problems  with
> > interoperabillity OS 9 had with talking to Windows and Unix boxes.
> 
> No that's not the reason. The reason is ONLY because of the lack of
> virtual memory management (with separation of addressing spaces for
> processes) in MacOS.  That's the one error in design in MacOS I
> identified in version 1.0 that they've dragged all along for 20
> years. (And I bet that if they did not make it, AAPL would be $50-$80
> now, and they'd have at least 40%-50% of market share).  Instead,
> they've wasted resources, CEOs and CTOs for 10 years before the NeXT
> take over.

NeXT took over Apple. Yes, that is the way it was except for the fiscal 
realities.

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