Re: Question about the number of Apple users vs Mac users

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Charles Richmond" <richmond@ev1.net> wrote in message
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> Perhaps that is one thing that Mac OS/X is attempting to do...to lure back
> the people migrating to Linux. If I understand things correctly, Mac OS/X
> is basically a *Unix* type kernal with a custom GUI built on top...

It is a UNIX kernal.  It is a BSD kernal with a bit of the NeXT Mach
kernal thrown in for good measure.  It was based on the FreeBSD
kernal variant of Unix aka Berkely Software Distribution or what is
now left of it.

> And it seems that very often a newbie on the Apple II will ask questions
> here... So maybe the number of Apple II users is also on the increase...
>

Hey, its all that cheap hardware that has been surfacing lately in
the thrift stores that get people interested in the Apple II plus add
in a bit of nostalgia and for those of us who couldn't afford an
Apple II in the day due to the fact that we were  young, finding
old Apple II hardware cheap was a lure to explore the Apple
II.  That was why I got started on it about six months ago
anyway. It is like those guys who rebuild old cars that they
wanted when they were teens that daddy wouldn't get for
them and now they rebuild them as a hobby when they are
older. It is cool getting old hardware to work again and to
explore what was possible in the day.  Now if I owned one
when I was in college, it would have been really cool. :-)
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