yup. solid reporting there chap. just like GNU's Not Unix too.
And Apple's already announced that Leopard is UNIX compliant and will no longer be "UNIX-based" (as the advertising to date has always been) and will be "a UNIX variant" certified by The Open Group.
Rick
· 2 years ago
Lay off the sauce during business hours! ;-)
cji
· 2 years ago
This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Blue Mach, Kentucky BSD, I/O Kit , and Reality Distorting Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff. -- Carl Spackler (sort of)
I swear every time I hear "hybrid" I'm reminded of Caddyshack...
Daniel Miessler
· 2 years ago
> Lay off the sauce during business hours! ;-)
Indeed. Score one for Rick. :)
Brandon Paddock
· 2 years ago
cji - it's a "hybrid" because it's actually, well, two kernels. At least from what I remember when I last looked at the OS X architecture. As I recall, it's the Mach microkernel (which actually shares a lot of history / influence with the Windows NT microkernel that powers modern Windows OSes) with a FreeBSD kernel running on top of it in some Frankensteining arrangement. As I understand it, the convoluted threading model that arises from this design is one of the more annoying things about programming on OS X.
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And Apple's already announced that Leopard is UNIX compliant and will no longer be "UNIX-based" (as the advertising to date has always been) and will be "a UNIX variant" certified by The Open Group.
;-)
-- Carl Spackler (sort of)
I swear every time I hear "hybrid" I'm reminded of Caddyshack...
Indeed. Score one for Rick. :)