Kip Crosby wrote:
>
> At 22:12 1/18/98 -0500, John wrote:
> >Okay, I know NeXT was the baby of Steve Jobs, but what exactly is it based
> >on? Is it an entirely new animal? If anyone can point me to some info, I'd
> >appreciate it.
>
> 68030- or 68040-based, running a variant of MACH UNIX called NeXTSTEP. At
Nonono. Mach bears a similar relationship to Unix to the one that
Linux has -- no AT&T or Berkley source code in the kernel. It was
an independent effort at what is now Posix by Carnegie-Mellon. It's
Mach, not "Mach Unix". A damned good effort at the time, actually.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Received on Mon Jan 19 1998 - 22:43:33 GMT