RE: Why you can't trust IBM when it comes to committing to
Posted in 2008
> From: indeep@indeep.com > are the options outside of Windows Vista? Apple and Linux. Even OSX is > simply FreeBSD. The apple-stack suddenly becomes a lot more interesting knowing > that Vista and even Windows XP are up for grabs. > No. It is not. OS X is a mach kernel. Big difference under the covers. (Not that you play at the kernel or micro kernel level. ;-) Avi Tevaidan ?sp? got his PhD for his work on Mach at CMU. (Sorry if I screwed up the spelling of his last name.) OS X comes to Apple via NeXT. You want to learn a cool language. Try Objective-C! But hey! What do I know? (Hint: Used to own a slab during the 90's and was a NeXT Certified Developer since '92 ;-) _________________________________________________________________ Watch “Cause Effect,” a show about real people making a real difference. Learn more. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause