Subject: Re: OT: apple's marketing is just insolent
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/19/2002 14:45:08
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:06:14AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:39:47AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:30:09PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > > 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".
> > 
> > For the purposes of this discussion, my statement was accurate enough.
> > I didn't think a full discussion of the BSD/Mach combination was needed.
> 
> For the purposes of this discussion, black is white.  I can't see, so I
> assumed that you'd be willing to discuss things as if you couldn't, either.

Look... the point was that Apple was blasting UNIX systems that are the
foundation of MacOS X.

Once again, my statement was accurate enough for it's intent.



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