From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 9: 8:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.inx.de (www.inx.de [195.21.255.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792F3153BE for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 09:08:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: from n247-80.berlin.snafu.de ([195.21.247.80] helo=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de) by www.inx.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10qfTP-0006iL-00; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:08:36 +0200 Received: by goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de (Postfix, from userid 100) id BA07D35D; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 17:32:11 +0200 (CEST) To: Calvin Bowen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mac OSX (BSD 4.4) References: <375A2DF9.378ACE7D@sunnynet.or.jp> From: Juergen Nickelsen Date: 06 Jun 1999 17:32:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: Calvin Bowen's message of "Sun, 06 Jun 1999 17:14:49 +0900" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Calvin Bowen 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. > I read recently that a G-3 running Mac OSX ran three times as fast > as Solaris on a Son box and seven times as fast as NT on a pentium. What application on which hardware? > Mac and Free BSD are my favorites. Same here. -- Juergen Nickelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message