A long long time ago in a Galaxy far far away....
OK... actually just a few short years ago, right here in Orange County we started Mac House Calls with an ad in the Penny Saver (check it out), and a belief that Apple was about to change the world again.
On the brink of oblivion, and under rule of the inept soft-drink marketing goons Apple again looked to Steve Jobs, its cofounder, to bring it back. That same year he release the iMac, the following year the iPod, and finally, to the shock and horror of much of the Mac world, Apple abandoned Mac OS 9, the heir to the line of operating systems which launched the Macintosh at the Super Bowl in 1984.
Steve and his crew built its replacement, Mac OS X (as in roman numeral “10”), on the worlds most stable, most robust, most extensible, multi-user, multi-threaded operating system ever, the operating system that most of the Internet ran on, and still does, the operating system that every bit of scientific computing in the last 3 decades has been conducted on, the operating system that every major academic institution in the world taught to its progeny of computer gods, the operating system of NASA, and the now the operating system of every Mac on every desk everywhere, UNIX.
While many saw chaos, we saw vision. Thanks Steve! Thanks Penny Saver!
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