From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:14:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <882cd6b6-aa5c-2576-bdb6-a229542caacc@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACNPpeaMUSr0CyY-0+Af1WOUJoBS2H8F-opBaY2vTmKwxLiRUg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/7/18 3:27 AM, Wesley Parish wrote:
> On 2/7/18, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> IMO:
>> 1) It kinda did catch on, in the form of macOS, but there was a time
>> when it was nearly dead as the major vendors moved to System V. For
>> some reason, Sun was the last major vendor to make the move, but they
>> caught most of the flack.
>
> And for what it's worth, the iPhone. IIRC, a nephew once showed me a
> bash prompt on his iPhone and some nifty tricks he was teaching
> himself with it.
iOS and tvOS are derivatives of macOS, so the iphone/ipad/apple tv all
run sort-of-BSD. I'm not as sure about watchOS, but I believe it's an
iOS variant. So yes, you can have Unix running on your watch.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-06 22:13 Dan Stromberg
2018-02-06 22:38 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-06 22:44 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-06 22:59 ` Pete Wright
2018-02-06 22:59 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-02-07 1:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-06 23:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 0:22 ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-07 1:02 ` Robert Brockway
2018-02-07 3:47 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-07 1:29 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 15:13 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 16:59 ` Jon Forrest
2018-02-07 17:27 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 19:21 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 21:24 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 19:31 ` Nemo
2018-02-07 19:49 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 19:53 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 20:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 21:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 17:52 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2018-02-07 8:04 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2018-02-07 8:51 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-02-07 8:27 ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-07 8:39 ` emanuel stiebler
2018-02-07 10:44 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-02-07 13:14 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2018-02-07 14:42 ` Nemo
2018-02-09 2:53 ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-11 20:22 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-02-12 0:31 ` Robert Brockway
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