Author: pavel
Date: 15:26:05 06/15/02
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On June 15, 2002 at 18:16:35, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 15, 2002 at 17:44:57, pavel wrote: > >>MacOS X is not UNIX but it was based on Unix. > >I haven't used it, but from what I heard it might as well be Unix. > >My unix professor went out looking for a new laptop a few days after Mac OS X >came out. He found a laptop with OS X on it, and was flying around the machine >doing all kinds of stuff like he'd been using that OS for years. The salesman >came up to him and was amazed at how well he knew what he was doing. The >salesman asked how he knew Mac OS X so well, since it had only been out a few >days. My professor replied, "It hasn't been out for a few days. It's been out >since 1968!" > >So from what my unix prof says, it's Unix with a different GUI. > >Russell I have used it several times, though I am not very familiar with MacOSX and UNIX, but I have used both of them. From what I have seen on MacOSX, it seemed more or less like windows (functions-wise), with the stability and security of UNIX, and Its very beautiful. Its not UNIX, its based on UNIX. maybe someone more familiar with MacOSX can confirm that. cheers, pavs ps, to make this post ontopic, I have seen sme nice chess programs on MacOS, and AFAIK there is also a MacOS version of winboard.
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