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To: uncommonsense
I read somewhere that iOS is BSD under the hood. Everyone does this stuff.
8 posted on 04/18/2013 6:31:16 PM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: beef
"I read somewhere that iOS is BSD under the hood. Everyone does this stuff."

iOS came from NeXT when they brought Jobs back to Apple and NeXT OS was a derivative of Unix with a better GUI. So yes, they all do this. Microsoft learned everything they know about multitasking / multiuser / networked OS kernals from IBM. They had a joint venture to develop OS/2 and MS pulled out, then launched NT from their IP they got from OS/2. IBM had the largest global multiuser systems in the world and top scientists for both software and hardware. Microsoft had DOS, a single user, single CPU, 640K limited, character-based OS. IBM made Microsoft successful - first with DOS, then Windows and NT (Windows' core was first DOS, then switched to NT with the XP version, their 1st real multitasking version of Win).

9 posted on 04/20/2013 10:36:23 AM PDT by uncommonsense (more laws = more government = more coercive power = more crimes of consequence)
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