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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by gsnedders on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:51PM (#17139958)
> Apple finally decided to overhaul their filesystem, but other things like the kernel, the API etc. still need the treatment.

And a large proportion of the kernel and APIs very obviously go all the way back to early NeXT days; they're really as old as WinNT is.

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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by patrickg_zill on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:55AM (#17141195)
Older, actually... NeXT 1.0 was released in 1989; first version of NT shipped in 1993.
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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by scruffyherder on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:18AM (#17144167)
NT shipped in 1993, but MS took on the NT project in 1988, and Cutler had the idea much earlier. NeXTSTEP 0.8 was 1988 as well, along with 4.3BSD Tahoe which the base was a part of, but of course 4.3BSD owes everything to Unix 32/v and everything before hand.....
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