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2011-10-06 , 06:05
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Originally Posted by les_garten View Post
I'll always respect this guy.

He did something that SGI, SUN, and Linux never got close to doing...

He brought UNIX to the masses.

Even your Grandma can use UNIX now! Not a bad Epitaph.
Except they're not USING the POSIX layer (otherwise, you could equally argue that Android brought Linux to the masses), and MacOS X isn't UNIX, it's Unix based (derived from Mach, which itself it a mix of pieces of NetBSD and FreeBSD, which themselves were derived from UNIX). MacOS is certified as UNIX 03 but it's not based on any true UNIX SVRx code.

What he brought to the masses was a GUI sitting on top of a Unix-derived OS. Your grandma is highly unlikely to actually directly use the UNIX-like portions directly. Good try at trying to compliment Jobs, though, but let's keep things accurate and straight despite any fondness for him so close to his passing away.
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