>OPENSTEP's Mach/BSD amalgam is the basis for Apple's Mac OS X operating system."
Is that BSD in there? Ummm... Apple took over OPENSTEP, no wonder they "selected" NextStep. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:53:46PM -0600, JxT wrote: > >"The BSD layer is based on the BSD kernel, primarily FreeBSD." That > >information is available on Apple's Developer Site. > > > > > > OSX is based on the Mach kernel, not the bsd kernel. > > "Apple selected OPENSTEP to be the basis for the successor of > the classic Mac OS. It became the Cocoa API of Mac OS X. > OPENSTEP is in fact an upgraded version of NeXTSTEP, which > used Mach 2.5. As such, OPENSTEP's Mach/BSD amalgam is the > basis for Apple's Mac OS X operating system." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_operating_system > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
