Heard of Mac OSX?
Its based on UNIX but looks good and comes with free objective C tools.
I dont know objective C but I am learning it and it looks a lot like 
smalltalk.
(the programs it creates are reasonably sized and fast.)

On Saturday, August 11, 2001, at 03:58  am, Aaron wrote:

> On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 03:55 PM, John Hinsley wrote:
>
>> Alan Grimes wrote:
>>
>> //snip//
>>>
>>>>> DOS is, unquestionably, the best OS in existance TODAY.
>>>
>>>> Uhh... that´s not what most people who know a litle bit about such
>>>> things would say... (actually, from Computer Science perspective it´s
>>>> pretty bad).
>>>
>>> Absolutly.
>>> Its miraculous that every other OS I've seen manages to be even worse,
>>> often much much worse.
>>>
>>> Here's a top 5 list:
>>>
>>> 1. DOS
>>> 2. Minix
>>> 3. Mac OS
>>> 4. QNX
>>> 5. BeOS
>>
>> Interesting that all the OSs you mention (with the exception of Mac OS
>> -- wonder how much longer they'll continue to support that?) have 
>> pretty
>> much made it into oblivion. BeOS struggles on, and I hear that Caldera
>> (or a branch of Caldera) are still doing some interesting stuff with
>> DRDOS, but really......
>
> Heh.  The best part of this is that Mac OS may only be the one to last 
> much longer, but is one of the poorest design on that list, internally 
> that is.  Second in poor design to only DOS. ;)
>
> Aaron
>
>