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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by toyg on Saturday June 29, 2019 @11:15AM (#20313025)
> Linux? Sure, but it's called MacOsx

OsX was built on NeXTSTEP, first demoed in 1988 and released in 1989.

Linus started working on a minix clone in 1991, with the first complete distributions (Slackware and Debian) not appearing before 1993.

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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by mpweiher on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:07PM (#20314190)
And of course development on the Mach kernel started in 1985.

The Unix personality on top of Mach was derived from BSD 4.3, released in 1983. BSD itself was started around 1977. It all is derived from the original Unix.

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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by huffmsa on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:16PM (#20313363)
> MacOs (previously Mac OS X and later OS X) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.

Not talking about classic MacOs

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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by oefrha on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:49PM (#20313530)
Classics Mac OS isn’t based on NeXTSTEP; Mac OS X is, and the Mach kernel in particular is much older than Linux. It takes like thirty seconds of googling to get your history straight.
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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by toyg on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:18PM (#20314242)
Me neither. In 1997, Apple bought NeXT to get Jobs back. In the bargain they acquired NeXTSTEP, which was, by then, a mature and robust OS. Once Jobs was back in charge at Apple, he deemed classic MacOS unsalvageable, and decided to move the Mac to NeXTSTEP - an OS they already owned and which he was obviously familiar with. It took a few years to build what would be known as Cocoa and Carbon, and eventually OSX. Linux was never even in the picture.
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