[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Wed Sep 16 12:24:23 EDT 2009


In article <5Z0rcS2tvt1K at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <00287602$0$26780$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> 
>>>    Niether iPhone not iPod are UNIX.  Naturally Apple did a better job
>>>    of designing the application interfaces than expecting its users to
>>>    bring up UNIX shells.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> iphone and ipodtouch run OS-X. OS-X is unix.
> 
>      OS-X is UNIX plus a damn good GUI.  iPhone and iPod are not UNIX.
 
GUI is just a user application on top of the OS.  the OS is OS-X and it is
(has been certified) Unix.  Oh, and apparently the GUI on the iPhone is
Darwin, the same one that is on other systyems running OS-X.

bill

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