On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 06:01 PM, Bernard A. Griffis wrote: > Where did Apple get its operating system? > It depends which one you're talking about.
Mac OS 9 and earlier were written by Apple. Mac OS X is Apple's massive retooling of NeXTStep, which they acquired when they bought NeXT. NeXTStep is loosely derived from the Mach 2.0 micro-kernel operating system that grew from the work of Avie Tevanian when he was at Carnegie Mellon University. Tevanian is now Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple. At least a half-dozen other operating systems grew out of Carnegie Mellon's Mach project. -- Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 796 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020117/a1099304/attachment.bin
