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tlrobinson on Nov 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi i...

Is it just me, or do many Unix users get offended by any computing device that can’t run Unix?

Here’s Steve Jobs’ take: https://youtu.be/YfJ3QxJYsw8

pjmlp on Nov 3, 2019 [–]

Even for NeXT being an UNIX was more a way to bring in UNIX software, while competing against Sun than anything else.

The OS architecture, drivers being written in Objective-C, foundation frameworks had nothing UNIXy about them.

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