Re: Where have all my recent posts gone?

sal <pragmatist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:35:52 +0100, Jochem Huhmann wrote:
:
:> sal <pragmatist@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
:>
:>> (What's that? You see more than 2 major players? Let's try to list
:>> them.
:>>
:>> (1) There's Windows.
:>>
:>> (2) There's Unix. Unix has been "branded" as Aix, Linux, MacOS X,
:>> Solaris, Irix ... and maybe I left one or two out. Porting software
:>> between any two of the Unix clones is straightforward; they're all the
:>> same system under the hood, even allowing for the Berkeley/CMU/ATT/Linux
:>> divide.
:>
:> MacOS X isn't Unix. Really.
:
:Yes it is. Really. It's BSD Mach Unix, with the Next window manager on
:the front end.

Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. Much of the XNU
kernel is based on Mach 3.0, but it's not Mach and doesn't use the
microkernel implementation. The kernel is actually a hybrid of Mach
3.0 and FreeBSD 5.x.

It's also not the Next window manager. It's something called Quartz.
Next used Display Postscript for its imaging model. Quartz uses PDF.

:You have confused X windows with Unix. They are different entities.

And that is an understatement. Unix makes sense. X is spooky. :-)

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