At 3:15 PM -0400 6/8/01, mike ledoux wrote:
>Basically, OS X is based on 'Darwin', Apple's open source kernel,
>which is in turn based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0. Darwin runs on both
>PowerPC and x86, but I believe OS X only runs on PPC.
Correct. 'Darwin' ends at the shell level (as a simplistic example) and OS X is the
graphical environment built on top of it. There are folks who have made Darwin run on
Intel, but there are an extremely limited number of drivers for it. One of the
strengths of the Mac environment (at least from the perspective of someone writing
Os-level code) is a fairly rigidly controlled hardware environment. Thus, not a lot of
drivers as you move to other platforms.
Ray
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