Odd.... Apple hired Jordan Hubbard (lead developer for FreeBSD) to head up
OSX development, and I was quite sure I saw an article where Jordan stated
the kernel and underlying OS was in fact FreeBSD. I'll check into this...
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: OSX
> > Hummmm last I heard... Apple's OSX was built on top of FreeBSD, not
> > NEXTSTEP.
>
> It's NEXTStep. The userland, however, is BSD. (From the console of a dual
> 1.25GHz Power Mac G4 running OS X.2.6.)
>
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