Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3209

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Ok, you never said that you downloaded it as freeware. I'm buttuming like so many Mac products that have worth, you pay for it.

Where is this freeware YASU found?

If it were only $5, yes it would be worth it. But most of the pay-for backup programs ran in the $30+ range and aren't worth it.

I do these by hand. I suppose I could write a script for it, tho I'd use bash to do these things. Apple Automator should also be able to do these things as well.

If it is freeware, yes it would be easy.

No, it never blew up in my face like you would've liked it to. I just won't spend any money on something I already do by hand.

Erm... you said since the '80s. No public archives from then that I know of.

I'm not so sure that non programmers can do all that you say here. Try sed or awk and tell me a nonprogrammer can do these things without being indoctrinated into programming.

Simple... price. Back then, UNIX was WAY out of the price range of most users. I remember Solaris for Intel running around $750. Now they give it away.

What Gods?

It would have to be during the Google era and not before for public archives. But if the price was compebreastive with MS windows, then it would've been a different story. If Jobs had been paying attention to what Linux was doing on the Intel, he'd would've smelled blood at that point. So far in my studies with unix programming are problems mainly due with the standards dealing with the X server. Quartz is a much different environment. It is ok for home use, but it could easily clutter up under certain engineering situations, like Spice with dynamic signal tracing capabilities that I had on the old MicroVaxes back in the early 90s.

-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?