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From: Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com>
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Subject: MacOS, not based on the Freebsd kernel?
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:27:49 +0100 
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Hi.

Found some news on Tomshardware and zdnn.com that made me think.
Here's the quote:

On the question to fitting a x86 cpu from AMD on the Mac, instead of the
PowerPC G4 chip:
 
"Rebuilding the kernel would not be too difficult because Mac OS X is built
on the same Mach kernel that NeXT used," he said. NeXT Software Inc.'s
OpenStep operating system ran on x86 hardware." 

What? Isn't the Mac OS kernel based on the FreeBSD (or at least the
BSD kernel)??
Are Steve Jobs so afraid of mentioning that they have gotten their ide from
the BSD community because of the Linux hype that's going through the
world today?
Why mentioning the OpenStep operating system at all???


Links:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-20001104.html#0147
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2649969,00.html


PeTe




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