Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh
by pjmlp on Friday July 12, 2024 @01:40PM
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Assuming Apple would still be successful, and not close shop.
It would have settled C++ as the main systems language on desktop OSes, between Windows, and Mac Be OS.
Objective-C would have died, and Swift would never come to be.
Clang and LLVM probably would never had gotten Apple's sponsorship.
POSIX would have died on the desktop, as Be OS like other non UNIX OSes wasn't that keen in being UNIX like.
There wouldn't be a flock of Linux and BSD developers rushing out to buy Apple hardware, instead of sponsoring OEMs shipping PCs with those distributons.
It would have settled C++ as the main systems language on desktop OSes, between Windows, and Mac Be OS.
Objective-C would have died, and Swift would never come to be.
Clang and LLVM probably would never had gotten Apple's sponsorship.
POSIX would have died on the desktop, as Be OS like other non UNIX OSes wasn't that keen in being UNIX like.
There wouldn't be a flock of Linux and BSD developers rushing out to buy Apple hardware, instead of sponsoring OEMs shipping PCs with those distributons.