On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:39 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >>>> Also Apple is one of the few companies to have produced version on both >>>> sides of the Great Schism; between System V and BSD. OS X is based on >>>> the BSD line (why the Califoria Board Of Regents copyrights are there) > > Apple discloses this lineage in OS X pretty plainly. > > List the "extensions" and you will find "BSDKernel". It may, indeed, be > the mach_kernel, but it is called what it is, and it has UC Regents > copyrights going back to before there every was a Macintosh in Steve Jobs' > vision.
Well it's more than a little convoluted. Mach was developed at Carnegie Mellon as a drop-in replacement kernel for Unix; in their case, BSD unix, since BSD was the de-facto standard for academic CS research; later developers of BSD adopted Mach as the standard BSD kernel. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
