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by calcsam 3419 days ago
OSX is one of Steve Jobs' least-discussed successes.

The original Mac, Pixar, the iPod, the iPhone are all talked about -- but without OSX as a Unix-based OS, application-development on Macs, and adoption of Macs in the '00s would have been much slower and more sparse.
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m_mueller 3419 days ago
Also, without NextStep Steve Jobs wouldn't have had a way into Apple again - Apple would look completely different today if it still existed at all.
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bluejekyll 3418 days ago
Technically it was a Mach based OS, with a POSIX compatibility layer from BSD.

The distinction is important IMO, because I beleave part of the ease of them supporting multiple platforms so easily is because it was all built around a microkernel.

Now Apple has more of a hybrid with XNU, but many of the core concepts of Mach are still there.

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