[Am-info] What Steve Jobs WON'T do at Apple

[Sujal Shah]

On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 10:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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> MOST MAC USERS will, thankfully, never see the complexities of
> Unix that lie beneath the sleek Aqua user interface. But among
> people who know Unix, OS X is beginning to attract attention, Jobs
> told me.

I was wondering how long it would take someone to notice this.  I'm
finding out that I'm not the only one who's excited by this possibility
among friends and colleagues.... I'm amazed that a ZD pub picked up on
this...

Sujal

> 
> The new OS has already begun to open doors into companies that
> have relied on Unix-based scientific workstations and to corporate
> developers creating projects for Unix mainframe systems.
> 
> These corporate developers, Apple says, have become big customers
> for the G4 PowerBook, the inch-thick Titanium-clad notebook that,
> with OS X installed, happens to be a Unix portable, too.
> 
> Since I am not qualified to judge OS X as a Unix variant, I asked
> several smart friends to tell me what they thought. These included
> academics and the co-founder of what was once a major Unix
> company. All agreed that OS X is a "real" Unix operating system,
> but they also pointed out some small compatibility issues that
> still need to be addressed.
> 
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