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Comment by lloeki

10 hours ago

I'm suspecting some forces at Apple would be perfectly content with ripping most of the BSD core and the assorted CLI out and just have Linux containers spawned in VMs, WSL2-style.

Of course they were, even NeXTSTEP was designed to be compatible with UNIX only to compete with UNIX workstations like those from Sun.

Neither Apple nor NeXT had a UNIX culture, and efforts like A/UX and mkLinux were never that much serious.

Had they acquired Be, BeOS was even less UNIXy than NeXTSTEP.