The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments
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Description: A paper on the design issues Apple faced when they ported the Mac OS to a semantically different Unix base (Darwin).
(June 19, 2000)
USENIX 2000 Invited Talks Presentation The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments Mac OS was developed in the early-1980s around the idea of providing the best possible user experience. Apple succeeded in making Mac OS a best-of-breed operating system for personal computers: Mac OS has set the standards against which modern graphical user interfaces are now modeled. The primary alternative to Mac OS at the time was Microsoft's DOS, which ran on IBM PCs. Mac OS was able to provide the functionality that DOS provided via a visual model which has proven to be much easier for the lay user to understand than the command-driven interface employed by DOS and other systems such as AT&T's Unix. Tight integration with the underlying hardware has allowed the Macintosh platform to extend the experience beyond the software and into the actual management of the machine, with plug-and-play device support and "out of the box" support for many devices. The Macintosh led the way to such technologies as desktop publishing.
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