Re: [NTLK] OSX source?

From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 21:10:35 PST


On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:47:47PM -0800, Bruce E. Durocher II wrote:
> OSX is built on Darwin, which is built on NeXT, which I think is based
> on Berkley Standard Distribution Unix--there's something different
> about the core from BSD, but I can't remember what. Apple said they
> made the majority of Darwin open source some years ago, but I don't
> know what the details are. It may not be as open-source as Linux, but
> it's certainly far from lock and key--for that you look to Microsoft.

There's a "Mach" step in there someplace. I think it's between NeXTStep
and the BSD tree.

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