Know your X heritage
For those interested in how MacOS X came about, check out this image of what is believed to be a 4 release of the NeXTStep OS. Notice a few things: 1) Mail.app 2)Terminal.app 3) Grab.app 4) Preview.app 5) Clock.app… Applications that haven’t even changed in name. Very interesting, and it makes me happy that this stuff didn’t fall by the wayside, like BeOS. Which makes me wonder… if NeXT hadn’t been puchased by Apple, 1) Would Apple still even be around, and would we be looking at 7500s like we look at these NeXT Stations? 2) If Be had been purchased, would NeXTStep still be around in one form or another?
My guesses would be ‘yes’ to the first question, and ‘no’ to the second.