Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:57:55 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat LIST <FreeBSD-Chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mac OS X != i386 Message-ID: <20020826215755.A25067@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20020826212431.W829-100000@dhcp-402-55.san.rr.com>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:26:39PM -0700 References: <20020826212431.W829-100000@dhcp-402-55.san.rr.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:26:39PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote: > You know, I got to thinking today... >=20 > How is Mac OSX "based" on FreeBSD?! I wasn't aware that FreeBSD could run > on alpha, i386 *and* Apple's hardware/architecture. Much of the userland and some of the kernel code is shared. Much of this code (especialy the userland portion) is architecture independed except for endian related bugs. Those are currently being fixed in the main line, largly due to the sparc64 port. Additionaly, FreeBSD is being ported to PowerPC (specificaly pci power macs). Claiming that MacOS X is based on FreeBSD might be a bit strong, especialy since it's got a Mach kernel, but they do share quite a bit of code and the pure unix interface is very similar. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9awbSXY6L6fI4GtQRAjMCAJ9lj0tRh1/awJZ9Ia1OvNy9TvXrQwCfdUOR M47iQJ/9uuk+9UeyYt/VyMI= =8qOA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020826215755.A25067>