laptop incident

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Mon Sep 13 16:28:44 CDT 2004


>> > >    Panther (v10.3.x) really is the best of MacOS combined with the best
>> > > of UNIX.  It's lovely.
>> >
>> > As a long time MacOS and Unix user, it was nice to finally bridge the two.
>>
>> Finally?  It was bridged a long time ago with A/UX.
>
>The last release os A/UX was 1994 or so (I have it), it wasn't that long
>ago.

That was about ten years ago, which is about half the lifetime of the Mac.

The first release of A/UX was released about fourteen years ago (1988).

I'd call that a long time ago compared to OS X and the age of the Mac
itself.
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Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net



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