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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:21:38 -0400
From:      "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
To:        'Terry Lambert' <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, twig les <twigles@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Sorry.
Message-ID:  <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B41E80F@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu>

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert2@mindspring.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:56 AM

>twig les wrote:
>> I thought FreeBSD *did* have a client setup called Darwin. ;-)
>
>FWIW:
>
>	FreeBSD 4.x:	~2M lines of code (including kernel modules)
>	MacOS X:	~6M lines of code (not including kexts)
>
>It takes a lot of work to make a usable desktop OS.

But, isn't the majority of the additional lines dealing with the fancy
graphics stuff, what is it called cocoa/liguid/carbon or what ever?


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