On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:59, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > It is important to note some of Apple's contributions to the open > > source community besides darwin. > > Darwin was not developed by Apple. It's originally a project that was > developed on Intel machines. Apple took it on since it had an acceptable > license (BSD).
I think the chain is somewhat longer (for the kernel): *bsd* (don't remember which one - mach kernel) -> NeXTstep (initially only m68k, proprietary hardware) -> NEXTSTEP (i386, ordinary pc's + sparc + hp + m68k) -> OpenStep (i386/m68k - don't remember when the others got dropped) -> Rhapsody (sp?) [NeXT is bought by Apple - or was this before Rhapsody?] -> Darwin -- Fernando