Orginally being? OS X is based on freebsd and other open standard projects, not at all an apple designed os..Apple did what a lot of companies do, take a product and make it better.
Classic mac OS was partially based on things coming out of xerox. I believe Jobs hired on one or several? of the guys who worked for xerox to work on the lisa OS. Someone here might know that history better. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Alvin Auerbach <[email protected] > wrote: > Chronologically: > Steve W. & Steve J. came first. The hardware came first, then an OS to make > the hardware do something useful in a relatively easy manner. > > Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was made by IBM. He > didn't "decide to sell an OS." IBM licensed QDOS from Bill, and they renamed > it. They should have purchased it. Korean manufacturers undercut IBM, and > licensed the OS from Bill, and the BIOS from (I don't remember). > > Bill originally wrote software for Apple, then was approached by IBM. QDOS > was purchased, not written, by Bill; and QDOS was a rip off of CPM. Windows > was a rip off of Mac OS. AFAIK, Bill never came up with an original OS. > > > On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: > > MS and Apple came up with two marketing campaigns, and methods. Bill >> decided to sell an OS and let manufacturers design equipment around it. >> >> Steve decided to not only sell an OS but to sell Hardware designed around >> it. >> > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
