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> Being UNIX was never part of neither Apple or NeXT's culture

Why do you say this? True, Mach is architecturally different from the BSD kernel but user space started out as NetBSD and its still fundamentally a POSIX system.

I never worked for either company but have worked with NeXT and Apple engineering teams on projects and wouldn’t say that I was working with people who took a non-Unix orientation, especially when compared, say, to Windows.

Would you not have considered AIX Unix? Or Unicos? People considered that Unix but it was more alien than the macos due to then constraints of the hardware.




What mattered on A/UX for application developers on Apple platforms was the System APIs layer ported to run on top of X Windows integration.

Likewise, anyone doing NeXT development was focused on Objective-C frameworks all the way down to driver kit.

As Application developer on a NeXT, the tune was all about WebObjects, Renderman, EOF.

Applications like Lotus Improv, Wingz, and those being put out by Omni Group were the meat of the kind of applications that people considered to use NeXTSTEP, not BSD command line utilities.

Pretty much patent on commercials like NeXT vs Sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg

Or Steve Jobs opinion on UNIX users,

https://www.cake.co/conversations/rZXhqtP/that-time-i-had-st...

and later when back at Apple

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2591327/apple-hopes-to...

AIX is definitly UNIX, because it isnt' like A/UX, NeXTSTEP, OS X or iOS, where the UNIX layer is there more to bring stuff into the platform, while the main developer stack is something else.


Much XNU is taken from FreeBSD.




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