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6th March 2004

A History of Apple’s Operating Systems

“Mac OS X is a unique operating system in that it represents a rather successful coming together of paradigms ideologies, and technologies that have usually resisted each other in the past… Apple has been around since 1976, and many accounts of its history have been told. If the story of Apple as company is fascinating, so is the ‘technical’ story of Apple’s operating systems. This document discusses operating systems that Apple has created in the past, and many that it tried to create.”

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6th March 2004

Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious

“Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of information between blogs, the researchers have discovered that authors of popular blog sites regularly borrow topics from lesser-known bloggers ó and they often do so without attribution.”

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