Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:40:59 +0200 From: Chris Zumbrunn <chris@zumbrunn.com> To: Alasdair Lumsden <enquiries@alivewww.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MacOS Message-ID: <72A1AE29-CA60-11D8-988E-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> In-Reply-To: <1088557263.3528.102.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com> References: <40E1CAAD.3000303@minimum.se> <40E1CF00.2090601@netli.com> <1088557263.3528.102.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com>
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On 30. Jun 2004, at 3:01, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > While Mach is derived from 4.3BSD (circa 1986~1988), there's been about > 15 years worth of divergence since then. For example, FreeBSD is > monolithic while Mach is more micro-kernel based. Also the driver > models > are quite different, eg Darwin uses IOKit (Object Oriented driver > interface model). From Apple's webpages previewing Tiger: "The upgraded kernel, based on FreeBSD 5.x, provides optimised resource locking for better scalability across multiple processors, support for 64-bit memory pointers through the System library and standards-based access control lists." http://www.apple.com.au/macosx/tiger/unix.html chris@czv.com +41 329 41 41 41 Chris Zumbrunn Ventures - http://www.czv.com/ Internet Application Technology - Reduced to the Maximum
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