bad journalism

Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi

The April 11th business week article titled: “Apple’s OS Edge is a threat to Microsoft” is just full of fail. I mean really, they should have done a little peer-review to make sure what they wrote was in the general ball-park of technically accurate According to them OS X pioneered SMP systems…

it all started with Mac OS X, the multi-core, multi-processor platform officially released in 2001. Based on “Mach,” a university UNIX research prototype, Mac OS X represented a clean break with the computer industry’s uniprocessor past. The modular new OS allowed Apple to condense its core task management function into a tiny computing kernel.

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