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by electricslpnsld 3072 days ago
Listening to episode 1, overall pretty good. I was surprised to hear no mention of NeXT, especially given some of the focus on post-Jobs-return Apple.
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I was discussing the lead in with a colleague last week. There are just so many threads to how we arrived at where we are today simply in terms of operating systems. You could probably have a whole podcast series on that alone. I once helped write an expert witness report that tried to bring in all the AT&T, BSD, Unix Wars, etc. threads and it was hard to keep it comprehensible. Keeping it around Microsoft and Apple in their modern forms probably makes it more approachable for a broader audience.
While I agree with the constraints, it kind of distorts the past for those too young to have lived through it.