Apple and "Worlds most advanced OS"

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeC25BM9E0#t=1078[/youtube]

08:00 "OS 9 was a mess, and Apple made that by themselves." "Their new operating system is not Apple. It's UNIX/BSD based".

"made by themselves" does not = copy. You FAIL. UNIX/BSD has nothing to do with Windows. You just disproved your own argument, that they copied Windows. FAIL. The End.

Read what I actually wrote instead of what's not written between the lines. I didn't say that they copied code, I said that they copied ideas and features. Like I said: Apple has never invented anything apart from the recycle bin (which Microsoft pays a license to use)... which in turn means that they have neither invented nor innovated since Steve Wozniac left the company. Taking something that already exists and giving it rounded corners, does not make it innovative. I like my iPad, but it's a fairly stock tablet that's a jack of all trades, but a master of none.

Shortly summarized: Windows could preempt threads before Mac OS, Windows could break deadlocks before Mac OS, Windows had memory protection before Mac OS and Windows had virtual memory before Mac OS. The first worthy opponent to Windows from Apple was OS X in 2002.

As was OS8 and OS 8.5. The reason being for this mess was that when Steve Jobs went back to Apple, The first thing that he did was kill off a multitasking multithreaded OS that was being ported to PowerPC from the stillborn AT&T Hobbit architecture.

When Apple came out with the G3 chips, they refused to let software engineers from BeInc know the exact architecture of that CPU, which effectively killed off an OS that was for all intents and purposes much more state of the art than anything that Apple has come up with since, including current versions of OSX, which is essentially BSD Unix with a pretty GUI.

BeOS would have been a much better, and not to mention much more advanced alternative to OSX.