Indeed, Apple from 1996 would not released Tahoe, most likely.
replyWe don't need research because QNX, L4 and many others on embedded space do exist as well.
Do you forget what Apple in '96 was? Or are you saying that Tahoe is too polished for the Apple of '96?
replyApple was not a bastion of quality in the 90's. They couldn't modernize the Mac OS, and that continued with little more than window dressing over what was released in the 80's. The Mac line up was a horrible mess of barely different models that needed a Ph.D to figure out what was different. The company was bleeding money and seriously close to bankruptcy.
The Apple of the mid 90's wishes it could release something like Tahoe.
Yes the 1996 Apple was on the edge of bankruptcy, yet Mac OS 8 was definitely much more polished than Tahoe.
replyApple circa 1996 would be charging for its updates and licensing out the software to Power Computing and UMAX. They were making a lot of "interesting" decisions.
replyThey still are doing lots of interesting decisions, the difference is that now the piggy bank is full to care of them going badly.
replyRip Blackberry Phone + QNX, you were so promising for such a short time.
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