[Info-vax] RIP: Dennis Ritchie (UNIX / C)

[JF Mezei]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> Apple's "Mac OS X" is hardly alone in that regard.  There are a number 
> of "look alike" and/or "work alike" Operating systems.  Anybody can 
> write an O/S and a fair number of people did so.

In fairness to Apple (or actually Next), they got the Mach kernel to
work. So they just didnt take any FreeBSD to build a GUI over it.