[Info-vax] Happy 25th birthday Macintosh !

johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 26 09:31:49 EST 2009


On Jan 26, 9:18 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <mailman.3.1232924503.16357.info-vax_rbnsn.... at rbnsn.com>,
>         bradhamilton <bradhamil... at comcast.net> writes:
> > Apple's done a pretty good job of bringing U*NIX to the desktop/laptop,
> > in a way that's accessible to the average Joe.  To my mind, *that's*
> > something to write home about.
>
> How many years after Linux had already done it?  
>

That's impossible to say since Linux still hasn't managed that yet.
Maybe another 5 years?  Ubuntu is getting close, I suppose, but it's
still not there yet.  Whereas OS X has been doing it since 2001.

  John H. Reinhardt



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