The latest news to come from Apple Computer Inc is that it is definitely not going to put its own Unix variant on its desktop machines. Computergram readers may remember the kerfuffle over Apple’s lack of support for a desktop Unix (CI No 2,699): at the time of the the 1994 Worldwide developers’ conference the debate was so fierce that the company promised to have another look at supporting the operating system on the PCI-based desktop machines, which at the time had not yet been released. We now hear that the machines are available but there is still no Unix operating system for them. When asked exactly what was going on, Apple said that it definitely has no plans to put Unix on them.
