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Re:Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' re... by ribs on Friday October 21, 2022 @05:54PM (#33293429)
How could Apple could have gotten a real OS more quickly? The Mac OS of the time had no preemptive multitasking or protected memory, so software running on it was doomed to be made unstable by all the other software. NextStep, maybe it was what you say, but they needed to make a change.
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Re:Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' re... by sroussey on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:45PM (#33295224)
The lack of protected memory was pretty insidious—essentially the kernel relied on application memory for its own internals in MacOS, and reentrancy was a problem for, oh, everything. Copland was to fix that first problem though (but only for new apps).
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Re:Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' re... by sgerenser on Saturday October 22, 2022 @12:31AM (#33295678)
BeOS was the other option being considered. It was arguably more advanced and powerful than NeXTStep. But Jean Louis Gassée played hardball thinking he had Apple on the ropes, and they went with NeXT instead.
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Re:Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' re... by simonh on Saturday October 22, 2022 @06:31AM (#33297059)
To be fair Gassée has said since they probably made the right choice.
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