Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:41:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Sebestyen Zoltan <szoli@netvisor.hu> To: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org> Cc: Calvin Bowen <ctbowen@sunnynet.or.jp>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mac OSX (BSD 4.4) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9906100840120.11282-100000@linux.intranet.netvisor.hu> In-Reply-To: <x77lphl4zo.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de>
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On 6 Jun 1999, Juergen Nickelsen wrote:
> Calvin Bowen <ctbowen@sunnynet.or.jp> writes:
>
> > The new OSX is based on BSD [...]
>
> Not really. As far as I understand, the system is based on a Mach
> kernel, with MacOS and 4.4 BSD servers -- just like NeXTSTEP was
> before, only with 4.3 BSD instead. For non-BSD applications, the
> performance of the BSD server is irrelevant.
Mac OS X IS based on BSD. You can regard it as a Mach microkernel BSD with
an own proprietary graphical interface instead of X-window System.
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Sebestyén Zoltán <szoli@netvisor.hu> Things must changed we must rearrange
them, or we'll have to estrange them.
All that I'm saying the game's not
MAKE INSTALL NOT WAR worth playing over and over again.
I use UNIX because reboots are for hardware upgrades.
Kick me! Whip me!! Make me develop on AIX!!!
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