Igor Delovski Board

[XNote]

Slashdot: A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

"As part of his 1680-page book Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach,
Amit Singh of kernelthread.com wrote a very detailed technical history of
Apple's operating systems. Since he had to cut down on the history
chapter because of the book's already too-large size, most of this chapter
didn't make it to the printed book. Singh has made available the history
chapter as a free PDF. The file is 140 pages long, and is generously filled
with figures and screenshots. It starts with the internals of the original
Apple I and goes through a tour of all operating systems Apple dabbled
with, including internals of A/UX, Lisa OS, and such. It even covers details
of outside influences like the Xerox Alto, STAR System, Smalltalk, and
Sketchpad, and closer to home things like Mach, NeXTStep, and OpenStep."

[XNote]

Chris Pratley, Microsoft: Let's talk about Word

"I wanted to work at Apple - but they turned me down ... I started at
Microsoft in June of 1994 on the Excel team, ... I was a pretty strong
Mac-bigot at the time. I thought Microsoft was, if not an evil empire, at
least a maker of substandard products that didn't deserve its success.

... After a year of distrusting the company somewhat, I began to gain an
appreciation of how Microsoft worked, and to see it for what it was - a
machine that was focused on building products that people wanted, as
quickly and as well as they could. Note the "quickly" - this was what
distinguished MS from Apple in the end - a focus on moving quickly, and
beating the competition."

[XNote]

1996-2006 - Ten Years of Apple.com w/screenshots

"As the Internet has evolved, websites have changed with them, but for
most of the last 10 years, Apple.com has look very much the same (at
least the front page, anyway). Take a look at how the site has changed
from 1996 to now…"

[XNote]

Why Apple Failed (before)

"Apple's recent quarterly earnings report blew past all expectations.
More importantly, dramatic unit sales growth shows the company is
executing a working strategy for building the Mac platform. That raises
the obvious question: why has Apple's market share historically been so
low, and why did Apple fail to make any progress in the 1990's?"

[delovski]

Digg: Mac OS Through the Years

"System 0.0-1.1 introduced in 1984

This was the very first version of Mac OS ever. It was very limited by
today’s standards, but was stunning to the commandline world of the
1980’s. It laid out the fundamental GUI layout/rules for many OSes to
come. It was only available preinstalled on Macs, since nothing else was
able to run it."

[delovski]

Digg: Where OS X 'Big Cat' code names REALLY come from

"OK, so imagine this: You're Apple Computer, Inc. and it's December 1997.
You've just blocked British Mac-clone maker Shaye from licensing Mac OS 8,
thereby putting it pretty much out of luck for new products. Still, there's
something kind of catchy about Shaye's branding... something vaguely
feline: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard..."

Plus: German armored vehicles and Apple Mac OS X

"It suddenly struck me while watching Discovery Channel the other day:
Both OSX and the german military's armored vehicles are named after
big cats."

[Ike]

The Mac Observer: The Apple Death Knell Counter

"It happens every few weeks: Someone new jumps on the bandwagon loudly
proclaiming that Apple will soon be dead. It's been happening since the early
1980s, and still Apple, and its doom sayers, keep chugging along. We decided
that it would be interesting to collect these stories, prognostications, predictions,
and premature eulogies in a sort of testimonial of buffoonery, and we are
calling it The Apple Death Knell Counter."

[Ike]

Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual

"I recently purchased an original Macintosh User Manual (thanks eBay!). I had
seen one at a garage sale, and was struck by how it had to explain a total
paradigm shift in interacting with computers. I figured I could learn something
about helping make innovation happen."

[delovski]

Man's Spare Room Filled With Almost Every Apple Model Ever Made



"This is James Savage's spare room, which contains one hundred Apple
computers. He has more than 150 in his house and all of them are working
perfectly, from an Apple II+ and a Lisa to the latest MacBook Pro."

[delovski]

daringfireball.net - The Good, the Bad, and the Avie

"Tevanian’s stewardship over Apple’s software has been a decidedly mixed
bag. Overall, he’s done a tremendous job. But where he’s gone wrong, he’s
gone terribly wrong, flashing a spiteful streak that has been largely detrim-
ental to Mac OS X’s overall usability."

[delovski]

Life Line - Rumors of Apple’s death have been greatly exaggerated!

"Apple Computer was the walking dead. In the mid 1990’s, there was
no life left in the company that started the personal computer revolution.

Popular perception was that even if Steve Jobs changed his name to
Dr. Frankenstein, there would be no way to breathe life back into this
company. Epitaphs were already being written..."