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Well, V7 UNIX is rather arbitrary as a reference point for comparison. There was what we now call as V1 UNIX, which would be circa 1971/72, so that's certainly 50+ years old. Compa…

The fancy names and the layering makes it a little tricky to understand. The core of the imaging model is called Quartz. It provides support for rendering 2D shapes and text. Its g…

As part of a project code-named "Jaguar", Apple did consider using a Motorola 88K variant as their future RISC-based hardware, but it was short-lived and they moved on to the POWER…

No, not quite. The macOS/iOS kernel is extremely Frankenstein-y (not meant in a derogatory way), with the majority of codebase being extremely Apple-specific, and bits and pieces o…

Sure, but that's why you'll see that my summary totals aren't just a summation of all the enumerated percentages. The point is to illustrate what the total tax range is at the high…

At the time of this writing (mid 2021), US tax breakdown for the highest income bracket in California is as follows. # Federal * Long Term Capital Gains Tax = 20% * Short Term Capi…