From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 13:08:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAF116A4E4 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enterprise.sd73.bc.ca (romulus-net.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C09343D45 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [10.10.10.14]) i39JvNDP032158 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:57:23 -0700 Received: from 24.71.128.221 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fcash) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca with HTTP; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3381.24.71.128.221.1081541310.squirrel@mailtest.sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <200404091050.19040.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <91A01A3C-89D8-11D8-91B3-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> <200404091050.19040.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:08:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Freddie Cash" To: advocacy@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Max OS X and BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:08:33 -0000 > On Thursday 08 April 2004 08:47 pm, John Von Essen wrote: >> I was under the impression that OS X was a derivative of OPENSTEP - >> which means from a kernel standpoint it is NOT BSD and NOT System V, >> rather it is a MACH kernel (which sort of is a BSD kernel >> derivative). A really nice breakdown of MacOS X can be found at: http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch.html That should clear up most of your questions. :) -- Freddie Cash fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca