[in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox
Todd Towles
toddtowles at brookshires.com
Tue Nov 16 14:28:00 GMT 2004
>OPENSTEP's Mach/BSD amalgam is the basis for Apple's Mac OS X
operating system."
Is that BSD in there? Ummm...
Apple took over OPENSTEP, no wonder they "selected" NextStep.
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> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:53:46PM -0600, JxT wrote:
> >"The BSD layer is based on the BSD kernel, primarily FreeBSD." That
> >information is available on Apple's Developer Site.
> >
> >
>
> OSX is based on the Mach kernel, not the bsd kernel.
>
> "Apple selected OPENSTEP to be the basis for the successor of
> the classic Mac OS. It became the Cocoa API of Mac OS X.
> OPENSTEP is in fact an upgraded version of NeXTSTEP, which
> used Mach 2.5. As such, OPENSTEP's Mach/BSD amalgam is the
> basis for Apple's Mac OS X operating system."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_operating_system
>
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