David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com> > writes: > > > > Mac OS X *is* descended from 4.4 BSD for normal definitions of "is." > > Not really. Darwin may be, but all the graphical folderol running on it > is rather descended (or written new) from older MacOS code not based on > BSD.
Well, actually, a fair bit of the graphical code on OS X comes from the NeXT operating system and graphics library. The older MacOS code has slowly been dropped from the Mac OS over the years. (The classic Mac OS actually used a Pascal interface. The current Mac OS uses Objective C.) -- Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
