Subject: Re: OT: apple's marketing is just insolent
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/18/2002 14:30:09
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 01:12:05PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
> I didn't know that, but it wouldn't be surprising. The kernel is
> basically a modified FreeBSD 3.x, which was what I was referring to.
Uh, no. Not any more than the NextStep kernel was "basically a modified
4.3BSD".
There's plenty of FreeBSD code in there, but don't kid yourself; OS X is
Mach.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You
plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud