On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:59:57AM -0300, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:36:53AM -0300, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti > > > > they did NOT use the bsd kernel. that is a myth propagated by slashdot > > mostly. > > Funny that I got it not from /. but from MkLinux, OSF, the OpenStep > community > and NeXT.
well its wrong. they use bsd userland, stuff like find, cp, ls, mv et al. NOT the kernel. the BSD kernel is monolithic and in no way would fit into a mach setup. > Then what they used? The whole point was not creating their own > kernel, nor > compiler -- just the ObjC classes. well they did create thier own kernel, using the mach package as a starting point. the only bsd there is a little bit of bastardized and ruined userland stuff, not kernel land stuff. > That I have no experience of. But given NetBSD's age and scope I can > at least > doubt. well there ya go, just because netbsd is nice on i386 means nothing on powerpc. porting brings instability, and each port has to mature on its own. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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