MacOS initially was developed by taking NextOS principles and porting over a file system that had the abilities to support MacOS 9 HFS file system. This allowed early Macintosh systems to run both UNIX and older Mac software in a that worked very similarly to VMWare Fusion in Unity view. Since Apple stock was under $5 a share and they had little capacity for development they created Darwin OS at the same time which is a Open Source version of the UNIX parts of MacOS. Darwin is was at least originally based on a CMU micro kernel with a BSD set of commands often the GNU versions that were developed at MIT. The two major versions of BSD systems still out there are FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I believe that Darwin cooperated with the OpenBSD developers for a while, but I am not sure of that. Certainly in the late 1990’s most security folks I talked with preferred to build their own firewall systems on the OpenBSD platform and at least one VPN provider that I did consulting with used OpenBSD systems because trusted them to be more secure than other open source unix projects.
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