From: Ad 

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/

"Don’t let its elegant and easy-to-use interface fool you. Beneath the
surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation hard at
work to ensure that your computing experience remains free of system
crashes and compromised performance. Time-tested security protocols in Mac
OS X keep your Mac out of harm’s way."


Looks like you were fooled by the elegant & easy-to-use interface.

"The most widely-sold UNIX-based operating system, Mac OS X offers a
unique combination of technical elements to the discerning geek, such as
fine-grained multithreading, Mach 3.0 microkernel, FreeBSD services, tight
hardware integration and SMP-safe drivers, as well as zero configuration
networking. Tiger’s state-of-the-art kernel features improved SMP
scalability and 64-bit virtual memory, while standards-based access control
lists take UNIX permissions to the next level.


Command-line Environment

UNIX users will feel at home in Darwin, the robust BSD environment that
underlies Mac OS X. That environment is accessible at any time from the
Terminal application. You can also run commands that don’t require
arguments (such as top) by double-clicking them in the Finder. With the
thousands of man pages included in Mac OS X, you can quickly find all your
favorite UNIX tools.

All of the standard UNIX utilities and scripting languages are included in
Mac OS X: editors such as emacs, vim and even ed; file management tools
such as cp, mv, ls and tar; shell scripts including bash (the default
shell), tcsh (csh) and zsh. Tiger adds the korn shell so you can run
scripts written for other operating systems more easily. And of course you
can use scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, tcl, Ruby and Python, with
native support for the popular Tcl/TK, TKInter and WxWidgets toolkits.
Python users can also script the powerful Quartz compositing engine. Visit
the Open Source page for more Open Source utilities in Mac OS X."

& many others.

The real fight remains between *ix & Windows & Mac OSX is part of *ix.


Adam

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