Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On 2025-06-03 18:27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 01:03:52 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
 

On Jun 3, 2025 at 8:08:29 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid>
wrote:
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What is “Unix”? It’s just a trademark. The original meaning of a
particular way for a computer system (OS and userland) to operate has
gone, and Apple played an instrumental part in killing it.

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You repeating this does not make it true.

 I’m looking at build scripts for cross-platform software which contain
lines like “if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)”. Why would that be necessary, do you
think?

Hmmmm...because there are detail difference between different versions of the same basic OS?
Are you really saying that such differences never crop up with Linux or other Unix systems?

 

When people think “Unix” nowadays, they really mean a Linux or BSD
system. That’s what works they way they expect a “Unix” system to work.
Not Apple.

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Only because everyone expects a "Unix" system to be ugly and obtuse.
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It sounds like you are confusing the GUI with the underlying OS.

 I said nothing about the GUI, you did.
 

Underneath it is a descendent of BSD, with a userland mainly from
FreeBSD.

 On Apple, the GUI is inextricably bound into the OS kernel. On Linux and

No. It really isn't.

(true) BSD, it is not -- it remains a modular, replaceable (and removable)
layer, the way it is supposed to be on “Unix” systems (without the
trademark).