[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[Arne Vajhøj]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
>> p.s. For years Steve Jobs denied rumors that Apple products would be
>> based upon Intel chips. Then in 2005 we learned that he had been
>> running a Skunk Works for more than 5 years to do just this. Job's
>> peers at HP should take note.
> 
> 
> Not quite like that. OS-X is based on freeBSD which has been available
> on the 8086 for ages. So when Apple decided to go 8086, it already had
> the core of its OS on the 8086 and just had to port the  software
> layered over the core unix.

OS X is not just a FreeBSD.

The kernel is not from FreeBSD.

FreeBSD provides the upper layers.

Arne