laptop incident

[Cameron Kaiser]

>    Nope.  OS X is basically OpenSTEP.  The OS X Unix API is basically 
> FreeBSD.
>    Although successive generations of OS X are dropping more and more of 
> the OpenSTEP Netinfo insanity in favor of flat-file configuration.

Yeah, NetInfo drives me nuts. At least there are nice tools for managing
it, but it seems much ado about nothing.

>    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.

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