os = ui? (Score 2)

what a strange position for mac advocates to take - that the defining thing an os has is the set of services it offers to a keyboard and monitor interface. so we need a gui and streaming audio on our mail servers now? has anybody warned the government that our defence system is depending on supercomputers that do not even have operating systems? the glory of unix is its flexibility. the author missed that, which is why he overlooked that unix is not used just because it is 'cheaper and easier' than rolling your own kernel (that's why apple didnt stay with the kernel they made).