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Re: [PHP3] OS X Server From: Chad Cunningham (ccunning <email protected>)
Date: 03/18/99

On 18 Mar 1999, Manuel Lemos wrote:

> Hello Kristian,
>
> On 18-Mar-99 09:19:49, you wrote:
>
> >Manuel Lemos wrote:
> >> Does it run on non-Mac hardware? Does it have any level of POSIX
> >> compliance?
>
> >OS X does not run on Non-Steve hardware, says Apples Webserver in their
>
> heheh, I've read a book about Steve Jobs' Apple story. It's interesting to
> see that while Steve was kicked out of Apple in the past because he was
> ruining Apple, now they praise him as saviour of the Apple nation after he
> had burned a lot of Perot's money on the NeXT.
>

Past aside, he's done a lot for apple. NeXT was and is a fantastic
platform, and I'm glad to see the core technologies reborn in OS X.

> >FAQ. They do not intend to port it anywhere (guess that's the price for
> >Bill's $150M investment). Also, OS X is not fully POSIX compliant, they
> >say on their website.
>
> So, this is only for Mac fanatics. Good luck for Apple, they will need
> plenty of it. :-)
>

The main lack of POSIX and BSD compliance is due to the lack of X windows.
I'm sure it won't be long before someone takes darwin and throws X Windows
on top of it. As for platforms, apple developed it for PC's as well,a nd
they do have a running PC version. It's currently not planned for release
due to mainly political difficulties with the Wintel camp.

>
> >Apple basically open-sourced what everybody already has anyway: The
> >operating system, drivers and other operating system basics. They did
> >not open-source any of their Nextstep GUI heritage, because they
> >consider that their crown jewels (and rightly so). They are only
> >interested in cheap Unix sourcecode ports and drivers for their system,
> >so they only open up that part of their system. Not a brandnew move,
> >because even on Nextstep you had access to much driver source and other
> >internals as a registered developer.
>
> Right, and AFAIK they are selling OS X for about $500 anyway.
>
>

Kind of like NT sells for $900, plus more if you want to do anything
useful with it?

OSX, for $500, comes fully loaded with all the software you need on a
server ( apache, sendmail, telnet, ftp, all the other goodies ), with an
unlimited client license. It also comes with a 30 transaction per minute
license for web objects, upgradeable to unlimited for $99. It comes with
netbooting and macintosh manager apps that blow away anything NT has to
offer. I'm very impressed with it.

>
> Regards,
> Manuel Lemos
>
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