Steve Jobs has passed away

[fas42]

Just like to add my respects. I was never into Steve Jobs or Apple, just was glad that there was something other than Unix to counter the evil empire (sorry Amir!). Over the last day there have been a lot of retrospectives on him and his thinking down here, and I now appreciate the angle that he was coming from. Especially the speech at Stanford: as people have said, highly inspiring, and to the point. We need more of that type of thinking around!

Frank

 

[vinylphilemag]

Just like to add my respects. I was never into Steve Jobs or Apple, just was glad that there was something other than Unix to counter the evil empire (sorry Amir!).
Frank

You'll be disappointed, then. Behind its GUI, Mac OS X is UNIX.

 

[NorthStar]

iSteve

 

[NorthStar]

 

[fas42]

You'll be disappointed, then. Behind its GUI, Mac OS X is UNIX.

Is now, yes, but back then it was a completely original product. There was a very major effort over some years to port the whole kit and kaboodle across to Unix, in part because the big flaw with the original OS was that it didn't have true multi-tasking. My all-time hero of the computing world was the Commodore Amiga, which was so far ahead of its time when it came out. Ruined, unfortunately, by opportunistic management ...

Frank