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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by tlrobinson on Sunday November 03, 2019 @03:07AM (#21432725)
Is it just me, or do many Unix users get offended by any computing device that can’t run Unix?

Here’s Steve Jobs’ take: https://youtu.be/YfJ3QxJYsw8

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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by pjmlp on Sunday November 03, 2019 @04:59AM (#21433035)
Even for NeXT being an UNIX was more a way to bring in UNIX software, while competing against Sun than anything else.

The OS architecture, drivers being written in Objective-C, foundation frameworks had nothing UNIXy about them.

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