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

Alice Conrad alice at tertial.org
Tue Feb 19 16:40:33 CST 2002


erm don't forget MACH
On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 06:14 AM, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 23:57, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, you wrote:
>>> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020214.html
>>>
>>> Interestingly enough, I would like to see it as well.  Don't ask me 
>>> why,
>>> I'm not sure myself.
>>>
>> Maybe I am waaaay off base here but isn't OS X based on FreeBSD? If 
>> that is the
>> case then the rest should be trivial right?
>
> Nope.
>
> Good ol' NeXTStep + some odds & ends from FreeBSD (ie FreeBSD's ipfw) +
> (iirc) NetBSD userland + the "Aqua" GUI.
>
> --
>
> Phil
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