>>The only minor experience on a mac was when I was in grade school when we had

>>the IIe to play around with.  I've seen a few macbooks. I think I actually re
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>>someplace that MacOS is sorta based on linux/unix too?

 MP> The underpinnings are based on BSD.  For a while anyway, it was
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 MP> (minus the apple GUI on top) as an opensource project called Darwin.

The whole app bundle model comes from NeXTSTEP, as does the Mach kernel which
NeXT (I believe) was among the first commercial software vendors to adopt.
Macos / OS X has a lot of FreeBSD components in it though so you are correct
there, but the basics of it comes from the NeXT days.


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