Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On 2010-03-24 15:23:28 -0400, Pascal J. Bourguignon said:

> Actually, MacOSX is just NeXTSTEP, and is older than Linux, so it's not
> surprizing it has more web clients than Linux.  After all, NeXTSTEP was
> the system where the web was INVENTED, and where the first web browser
> was ever IMPLEMENTED!

And the laser printer was first connected to the Xerox Alto, but you 
don't see many of those at graphic design firms.

NeXTSTEP never had a significant web client share once numbers of 
internet users grew into the tens of millions. The numbers matched OS 
usage - 95% of these new users were on Windows, and the overwhelming 
majority of the remainder were on Mac OS. That's why NeXT had to sell 
the company to Apple, itself a minority player.

Mac OS X has 5x as many web clients as Linux because of what Apple did 
with NeXT, not because NeXT was ever a popular client platform.

warmest regards,

Ralph

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Raffael Cavallaro