[Ti] Re: IBM introduces new PowerPC processors

[T.L. Miller]

On 7/10/05, at 12:54 AM, ~flipper, <lord.flipper at gmail.com> said:

>Well, for starters, they could have gotten OS X out the door three 
>years earlier if they'd simply ported NeXTSTEP to the platform, 
>without the crazy HFS+ filing system (which creates ridiculous wear 
>and tear on hardware), with all the recursive node 'hops' (back and 
>forth as many as 19 times, compared the Unix file systems 1) to do 
>simple searches for a file. Silly.

Huh? Maybe they could have gotten an OS out the door much sooner, but it
would have been so alien to the typical Mac customer that it would have
been disastrous! As it was, the earlier versions of OS X were
sufficiently different from OS 9 that there was a major uproar.