OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[CJ Kelley]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:

> CJ Kelley wrote:
> >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >     I see others saying that Mac OS X has bits from FreeBSD and NetBSD.
> How
> >     much of Mac OS X comes from those two sources would be really
> >     interesting to compare.
> >
> >
> > </snip>
> >
> > well i am pretty sure that atleast that the TCP/IP was taken from
> > *BSD..as it says "Installing BSD Subsystem" when you are installing mac
> > os x.
> >
> > plus alot of commands in mac os x are very similar / the same in *BSD
> >
> > --cj
>
> The core of OS X is highly BSD-based and was released independently as
> Darwin. Apple ceased releasing complete sources to Darwin when they
> switched to x86.
>
> For an example, when you boot OS X in single user mode (at least in the
> past, I don't know about x86), the first message you see is the
> copyright "The Regents of the University of California" stuff.
>
>
i still see the The Regents of the University of California when using the
intel version

--cj

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