[geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...

[Dave McGuire]

On February 19, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > > Good ol' NeXTStep + some odds & ends from FreeBSD (ie FreeBSD's ipfw) +
> > > (iirc) NetBSD userland + the "Aqua" GUI.
> > 
> >   Would the FreeBSD kernel be considered an "odd", or an "end"?
> 
> Neither.
> 
> Where does it say that OS X has the FreeBSD kernel?
> 
> I've always read that OS X has *parts* of the kernel, not the whole
> shebang.

  I got that info from Geoff Adams, a guy who's FORGOTTEN more about
MacOS X (and pre-X) than most of us will ever know.  He's tight with
several of the developers, and writes MacOS X apps and drivers for a
living.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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