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0 pointstambourine_man2y ago0 comments

Off the top of my head:

launchd inspired systemd.

Spotlight (real time indexing and notification) is something I miss in Linux today.

64bit Unix layer on consumer hardware (G5).

All of that stuff was not a first ever implementation, of course, but it was well executed and led the way.

All of that was more than a decade ago.

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pjmlp2y ago

All of that appeared first in HP-UX, Solaris and Aix.

Xenix and Coherent were the first UNIX on consumer hardware.

Which is why I said: “All of that stuff was not a first ever implementation, of course, but it was well executed and led the way.”

Apple is rarely the first at doing something but it's often the first that's good and cheap enough that people care about.

pjmlp2y ago

Which makes the point that there is hardly any UNIX inovation coming from them.

Please cite a USENIX research paper from Apple.

You may argue that Quartz inspired Wayland, but I wouldn’t be so sure, maybe that was just obvious given the hardware of today.

pjmlp2y ago

Non UNIX display technology inspired Wayland.

Amiga, Atari, BeOS, OS/2, Windows, classical Mac OS,...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointstambourine_man2y ago0 comments

Off the top of my head:

launchd inspired systemd.

Spotlight (real time indexing and notification) is something I miss in Linux today.

64bit Unix layer on consumer hardware (G5).

All of that stuff was not a first ever implementation, of course, but it was well executed and led the way.

All of that was more than a decade ago.

pjmlp2y ago

All of that appeared first in HP-UX, Solaris and Aix.

Xenix and Coherent were the first UNIX on consumer hardware.

Which is why I said: “All of that stuff was not a first ever implementation, of course, but it was well executed and led the way.”

Apple is rarely the first at doing something but it's often the first that's good and cheap enough that people care about.

pjmlp2y ago

Which makes the point that there is hardly any UNIX inovation coming from them.

Please cite a USENIX research paper from Apple.

You may argue that Quartz inspired Wayland, but I wouldn’t be so sure, maybe that was just obvious given the hardware of today.

pjmlp2y ago

Non UNIX display technology inspired Wayland.

Amiga, Atari, BeOS, OS/2, Windows, classical Mac OS,...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse