At 2004-08-09T17:11:27+1200, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > At a more fundamental level, MacOS X is a variant of BSD running on a > MACH microkernel, mich likeâ
NeXTSTEP... ...and OSF/1, and Lites, and... While Mac OS X does share a great deal of its history with NeXTSTEP (or, more accurately, OpenStep), it's a bit silly to refer to Mac OS X as "NeXT". As similar as they are in many ways, they are quite different in others. Mac OS X certainly fills the gap for people looking for the next best thing to NeXTSTEP. On a related topic, there's a nice diagram of UNIX lineage at Ãric LÃvÃnez's site[0]. [0] http://www.levenez.com/unix/ Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
