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From: Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
Cc: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Historical application software
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 19:02:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AB07D47D-15AF-4FD2-B2E7-0610B3D1CBCE@eschatologist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VT2K+Zny_bkb23j6h7gS3SRGzewQhYSMnnEi2kjgx3vcg@mail.gmail.com>

On May 28, 2022, at 8:30 AM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> the Mac OS X operating system,
> which IIRC was built by placing FreeBSD Unix on top of the MACH
> microkernel

Please don't spread this meme. Like NEXTSTEP before it, there's *way more* to how Mac OS X was created than is implied by "placing FreeBSD Unix on top of the MACH microkernel." In particular, xnu is a lot closer to OSF/1 than a lot of people may realize…

  -- Chris


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-03  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-27 11:57 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2022-05-27 17:00 ` [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-05-27 17:29   ` Warner Losh
2022-05-28 15:30     ` Paul Winalski
2022-05-29  0:57       ` Warner Losh
2022-05-29  9:43         ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-03  2:00         ` Chris Hanson
2022-06-03  2:09           ` Warner Losh
2022-06-03  2:02       ` Chris Hanson [this message]
2022-05-28 22:06 ` [TUHS] Anyone have an interest in really old analog multimeters and a vacuum tube tested circa 1960s or 1950s? Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-28 22:09   ` [TUHS] " Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-28 23:31     ` Ed Cashin
2022-05-28 23:45       ` Clem Cole
2022-05-29  2:11         ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-29  2:18           ` Kenneth Goodwin
     [not found]             ` <99E8871E-035C-4A58-8091-189EDE4689BA@common-sense.com>
     [not found]               ` <CAMQbRb2uPTaqCrZCnVQuBtHhnFZWPpyZ_fHxs-4h8WGoOCrGJQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-05-29 13:05                 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-29  2:08       ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-29  2:10       ` Kenneth Goodwin

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