zachary pfriem

I posted this on my work blog (not public), thought it was worth reproducing here:

Upon my random perusing of wikipedia.org, I found an interesting path of correlation. It was when looking at the entry for DOOM (video game) that I found this path: DOOM was built on the DOOMengine which was based on the NeXT platform, the first port of NeXT to MSDOS was for DOOM, ironically, the NeXT engine was developed by the company NeXT Software Co., the company that Steve Jobs formed after leaving Apple back in 1985. Furthermore, NeXT evolved into OPENSTEP, and elements of OPENSTEP made their way into OSX. So in a way, DOOM and OSX are long lost cousins.

The Apple portion summed up, good quick read