Date: 06 Jun 1999 17:32:11 +0200 From: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org> To: Calvin Bowen <ctbowen@sunnynet.or.jp> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mac OSX (BSD 4.4) Message-ID: <x77lphl4zo.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de> In-Reply-To: Calvin Bowen's message of "Sun, 06 Jun 1999 17:14:49 %2B0900" References: <375A2DF9.378ACE7D@sunnynet.or.jp>
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Calvin Bowen <ctbowen@sunnynet.or.jp> 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
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