Devised at PARC in 1970, it was at the heart of the user interface for Apple’s Lisa and Mac. Although much changed in Mac OS X, then with Stage Manager and other additions to macOS, it has survived. Is it now being abandoned?
NeXTSTEP
A replacement for the NetInfo service in NeXTSTEP and early Mac OS X, Open Directory is an LDAPv3 service delivered as Directory Services, and essential to permissions, authentication and more.
Look forward to Universal Apps, which will show how well Apple Silicon Macs perform. There’s a lot of history buried in them too.
