Subj : OFFLINE READER NEEDED
To   : Scott Little
From : Dirk Cap
Date : Fri Aug 18 2000 11:06 am

On (12 Aug 00) Scott Little wrote to David Bowerman...

 SL> Ah, but Linus isn't claiming Linux has 'a UNIX foundation' - Linux is
 SL> a UNIX-like clone. MacOS, according to Martin, has 'a UNIX foundation'
 SL> meaning Apple used UNIX as the basis of MacOS versions 1-9.

 I don't believe the MacOS has foundations from Unix.
 I believe they give up preemptive multitasking after
 version 7 and uses true multitasking from version 8.

 In my opinion Unix uses true multitasking from the
 moment it was released.

 Dirk

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 * Origin: Cap Dirk from Belgium (2:292/865.19)

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