Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:02:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What is UNIX? (was Re: Microsoft Advocacy?) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0112201256230.26995-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <20011221082103.A2821@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:58:08AM -0800, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
>
> [...]
> > Apple's OS X is not what I would call a "unix". Certainly, the Mach based
> > underlying kernel is unix-like, and the FreeBSD tools are unix-like. But
> > the desktop is MacOS version 10. It may be the closest thing to Unix as a
> > desktop, but I think they have more desktop and less Unix.
>
> Apple's OS X has as much right to be called UNIX as FreeBSD, Irix,
> AIX, and any other variant out there. You're confusing the glitzy
> front-end from the heart beneath beast.
Or maybe more right to be called UNIX(r) than FreeBSD. ("UNIX is a
registered trademark of The Open Group".)
The Open group lists Apple as a platform vendor supporting the Single UNIX
Specification:
http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_unix/single_unix_specification.html
An article at osOpinion before Apple was listed:
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/9451.html
How much does it cost to take the specification tests?
(I am also curious why BSD/OS never became an official UNIX.)
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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