Steve Jobs spent 12 years creating, funding, and leading a risky company that built a UNIX implementation that has become one of the most widely used.<p>I think the creating OS X is in the same league as creating UNIX or Linux.  Sure, Jobs wasn&#x27;t a coder like Ritchie or Torvalds, but it&#x27;s not like they didn&#x27;t also have a lot of help.