[aclug-L] Re: BeOS? What is it?

[lowell <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> 
> the interesting thing about this is that NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP aren't
> really unices in and of themselves...  they are just a layer on top of the
> kernel (in  NeXTSTEP it's MACH, but OPENSTEP can be run on a number of
> platforms including NT)...  they are basically just the UI and the
> development environment...  similar to GNOME and KDE, but even more
> powerful and more comprehensive...  closest thing to *STEP is GNUstep,
> which is an implementation of the OPENSTEP API for linux (since there
> never was one created, and if it was, it'd be VERY expensive)...  it's not
> an OS, but an extension of it in a manner of speaking...

Folks,
        Doesn't MacOS run on the Mach kernel?or did it used to
but not any more?and what happened to that "blue box, yellow box"
stuff (if anyone but me followed that business). Did it all go by
the wayside when OS X took over from Rhapsody?(Same time Jobs took
over from Amelio, more or less?)

Lowell
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