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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-10-16 19.20, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

In all fairness it's not entirely Mach in there...

It's a hybrid of Mach and BSD in the kernel.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

	Johnny