> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Henning Brauer > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Finding a ral(4) cardbus card > > > * Adam Hawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-13 08:01]: > > MacOS was a BSD base at some point, was it not? > > no. > > -- > Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > BS Web Services, http://bsws.de > Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services > Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam > >
To my understanding, Kernel = no, userland = yes. The MacOS X Kernel is a modified Mach kernel. Much of the non-gui part of OS X was borrowed from either FreeBSD or NetBSD according to who you ask. I don't know about current versions (I'll check my MacBook tonight) but in the first versions of OS X you could go to a bash prompt and go peeking in /etc and find config files that still had Net and/or FreeBSD headers and version dates. I was in a basic OS class at that time and we did a section on MacOS X and I got in (a very little) trouble for cheating because one quiz question asked us to find some network config settings and while everyone else was looking through their GUI, I was pulling the info directly from the config files. The Prof. didn't even know you could get a command prompt on MacOS X and thought I had installed something. He probably would have been right except that I didn't need to, it's built in.
