The only minor experience on a mac was when I was in grade school when we had >the IIe to play around with. I've seen a few macbooks. I think I actually read
someplace that MacOS is sorta based on linux/unix too?

The underpinnings are based on BSD. For a while anyway, it was available (minus the apple GUI on top) as an opensource project called Darwin.

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The only minor experience on a mac was when I was in grade school when we had

the IIe to play around with. I've seen a few macbooks. I think I actually re

ad

someplace that MacOS is sorta based on linux/unix too?

The underpinnings are based on BSD. For a while anyway, it was
available
(minus the apple GUI on top) as an opensource project called Darwin.

The whole app bundle model comes from NeXTSTEP, as does the Mach kernel which NeXT (I believe) was among the first commercial software vendors to adopt. Macos / OS X has a lot of FreeBSD components in it though so you are correct there, but the basics of it comes from the NeXT days.


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On Oct 6th 4:49 am Mike Powell said...

we had >the IIe to play around with. I've seen a few macbooks. I think I actually read >someplace that MacOS is sorta based on linux/unix too?

The underpinnings are based on BSD. For a while anyway, it was available (minus the apple GUI on top) as an opensource project called Darwin.

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I just read a article about MacOS about a day ago. It was pretty good reading!
I've never really played arouund with a modern Apple PC. I've been wanting to for a long time. Atleast the older models before they went to Intel Chipset..



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On 26/10/2019 2:11 a.m., Charles Stephenson : Mike Powell wrote:

I just read a article about MacOS about a day ago. It was pretty good reading!  I've never really played arouund with a modern Apple PC. I've
been wanting to for a long time. Atleast the older models before they
went to Intel Chipset..

I ended up with a iMac G3 (the all-in-one egg-shaped design) when the previous owner had a "forgot the password" issue, around 2010 (I think).

With some help from a fellow fidonet echo friend, I managed to get one of the earlier OSX OSes on it.

I imagined putting it on display at my shop and allow people to browse inventory or a local webserver. But the CRT display technology is a power hog and would contribute extra cost to run. The darn thing is pretty heavy too.

The ethernet port seems to be defective. But usb/wi-fi dongle could work.

Sadly, it will need to make a visit to the landfill museum.

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I just read a article about MacOS about a day ago. It was pretty good reading! >I've never really played arouund with a modern Apple PC. I've been wanting to >for a long time. Atleast the older models before they went to Intel Chipset..

Several years ago, when they first came out, I thought about getting a Mac
Mini (I think that is what they are called) but never did. That was as
close as I came to ever obtaining one.

Mike

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On Oct 26th 8:00 pm Mike Powell said...

I just read a article about MacOS about a day ago. It was pretty good reading! >I've never really played arouund with a modern Apple PC. I've been wanting to >for a long time. Atleast the older models before they went to Intel Chipset..

Several years ago, when they first came out, I thought about getting a Mac Mini (I think that is what they are called) but never did. That was as close as I came to ever obtaining one.

I randomly go to thrift stores. I've ran into 2 iMacs, both didn't have the keyboards. I thought about getting one and seeing if I could find a keyboard on eBay or someplace. I still might go get it! The one has been sitting for awhile...



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On Oct 26th 8:00 pm Mike Powell said...

I just read a article about MacOS about a day ago. It was pretty good

reading! >I've never really played arouund with a modern Apple PC. I've
been wanting to >for a long time. Atleast the older models before they
went to Intel Chipset..

Several years ago, when they first came out, I thought about getting a
Mac Mini (I think that is what they are called) but never did. That was

as close as I came to ever obtaining one.

I randomly go to thrift stores. I've ran into 2 iMacs, both didn't
have the keyboards. I thought about getting one and seeing if I
could find a keyboard on eBay or someplace. I still might go get it!
The one has been sitting for awhile...

You can use any USB keyboard and mouse with Mac OS X / Macos, regardless if it was made for a PC or a Mac. Some keys will need re-mapping in software (easy to
do in the system configuration) though.


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On Oct 30th 5:43 pm Joacim Melin said...

I randomly go to thrift stores. I've ran into 2 iMacs, both
didn't

have the keyboards. I thought about getting one and seeing if I
could find a keyboard on eBay or someplace. I still might go get it!
The one has been sitting for awhile...

You can use any USB keyboard and mouse with Mac OS X / Macos, regardless if it was made for a PC or a Mac. Some keys will need re-mapping in software (easy to do in the system configuration) though.

Hmm, didn't know that! I'm for SURE going to have to go get that beauty then! :)



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