[OT] OS heritage (was: Re: source code for MacOSX tools)

2016-03-13 Thread Curtis Villamizar
OT - therefore my first and only post on this. In message Jim Reid writes: > > > On 13 Mar 2016, at 15:06, Robert Chalmers wrote: > > > > Nice hardware, but the software is really recycled FreeBSD. say what? > > The MacOSX kernel is based on Mach, not BSD, though that Mach kernel > presents

source code for MacOSX tools

2016-03-13 Thread Jim Reid
> On 13 Mar 2016, at 15:06, Robert Chalmers wrote: > > Nice hardware, but the software is really recycled FreeBSD. say what? The MacOSX kernel is based on Mach, not BSD, though that Mach kernel presents a largely BSD-flavour/POSIX API to user mode applications. It might be fairer to say FreeB