This was pre OSX so it is a safe assumption.

OSX is sortof nextstep for the masses, but the differences might be things he cares about.

MacOS is NEXTStep.

He presented a quake 3 port on Mac at one of the Apple events with Steve Jobs on stage.

At that time was he talking about 68k or Intel Mac?

I had a Power Mac.

Why does this matter to you at all? It's funny to see all the Mac apologizer comments having to clarify that "oh no, but that Mac was so different". As if the modern incantation is any better; we just had a thread two days ago of how absolutely botched it is from a UI/UX perspective, and the hardware is the most anti-hacker, anti-consumer, DRM-riddled thing in existence if you watch any of that Ross boy's channel.

> If I can convince apple to do a good hardware accelerated OpenGL in rhapsody

Yeah, that comment aged well. Mac users are still waiting for full OpenGL 4.6 compliance and that spec is already ten years old.

Edit: of course, I will get down-voted despite laying out very basic facts. Happens every time you poke the dogma bee's nest.

Edit edit: I am still genuinely curious why the man's opinion from 30 years ago apparently matters to you that much. I'd like to understand the psychology behind it if you would care to write a response.