Date: 16 Oct 1997 23:37:17 -0500 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: adrian@virginia.edu Cc: FreeBSD Hackers List <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Rhapsody is 4.4BSD based!? Message-ID: <8767qxc8ea.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin"'s message of "Thu, 16 Oct 1997 23:16:36 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.SUN.3.90.971016231053.22323D-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu>
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"Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> writes: > Has anyone else seen this? Aparently Apples next generation OS > is 4.4BSD based. Do I smell a new emmulation to support? > > You can get the basics from the following PCmag URL: > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/news/trends/t971016a.htm > > I wonder which 4.4BSD they started with? It is reported to be > multithreaded. I wonder if them mean kernel-multithreaded? > I'm not sure about the 4.4BSDedness. I think they really *mean* to say 4.3BSD updated with tools from 4.4BSD. The kernel is still mach 2.5 (like NeXTSTEP) with BSD emulation layer, and as such it is a very different beast than Free|Net|OpenBSD. Emulation? Well, the only emulation that would be interesting would be the OPENSTEP based GUI stuff. For that, see http://www.gnustep.org/--however Apple is likely to add features outside of the OPENSTEP spec, and I'm not sure what the future is of the OPENSTEP API itself. Presumably gnustep could try to clone the rhapsody interfaces (or at least all apps to run)... not sure how helpful apple will be with this, however. -- Steve Farrell
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