On 3/24/11 3:05 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: > Valid point....but I find it fascinating that OS X was BSD-based. No? Or > was it more derived from NeXTSTEP which was based on BSD and Unix?
I don't know the details, either. Darwin is the underlying OS, and is Unix-based, and is completely open-source. OS X is the "windowing" layer (not really the OS, but the user has no idea), and is partially to mostly proprietary. They've done a stellar job giving lots of disparate user-types a best-of-class user experience. Mom and Pop, Aunt Tillie, reporters, teachers, photographers, musicians, application developers, scientists... you name it, the Macintosh is probably their favorite computer. And there really isn't any fundamental reason (anymore) that it can't be the business person's favorite computer either. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
