On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:35 PM, Peter wrote:
> > > On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Charles Davis wrote: > >> What you are seeing, is evidence of what you actually have. I.E. A >> 'UNIX' clone operating system, with Apple's GUI, Aqua [which they are >> justly proud of.] atop Darwin [Apple's contribution to the 'open >> source' cloning of UNIX effort for the PPC family of processors]. > > Thanks to THE University of California, the inventors of the IP, > RAID, The Atomic Bomb, and The Hydrogen Bomb, oh, and Human > Recombinant DNA insulin, and highly parallel-ized (clustered) > computing. > > OS X is more BSD [ Berkeley Standard Distribution ] than it is > [ AT&T ] Unix. > > O.K., got to wondering, because I was working from memory (which IS subject to error). GOOGLed 'Berkley Standard Distribution' [Note --- "Berkeley" doesn't seem to be the preferred spelling. Go figure.] About 547,000 hits --- Only looked at one, # 8 on the list, and copied the following, "Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Unix, is the Unix operating system distributed by the University of California, Berkeley starting in the 1970s. BSD is also a term used to describe any of a variety of UNIX- type operating systems based on the UC Berkeley BSD operating system." So I guess my memory wasn't that far off. Let's NOT get into a 'Nit Picking contest' -- It really doesn't increase the information level of the discussion. Working from memory again, Apple, is one of the 'Open Source' Repositories for BSD. Now BSD is NOT UNIX, the UNIX name is owned (at least it was) by AT&T Bell Labs. BSD is University of California at Berkley's re-write of UNIX to run on other processors. [Other that the "Mini Computers" of the '60s.] I guess Apple's involvement was because of Apple's use of the PPC chips in their [Apple's] commercial offerings (hardware). Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
