On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 02:16:35AM -0400, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> Horst von Brand quoted Paul Jakma as saying:
> > > correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't all the SysVR4 derived unices
> > > (T64/IRIX/Solaris/Unixware) using Mach based kernels? And MacOS X too?
> >
> > All monolytic, except possibly MacOS X (don't know that one, and I
> > remember
> > Apple's Linux was on Mach, because they wanted to build their OS based on
> > Mach, so it could be).
> I didn't know NT was Mach-based --- that's very interesting.
>
> I chatted with Wilfredo Sanchez about this a few weeks ago. I thought
> I understood him to say MacOS X was based on Mach, but the BSD services
> were integrated into the kernel, not running as a server atop it.
>
> --
> <kragen@pobox.com> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
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MacOS X uses the Mach 3 micro kernel integrated into BSD 4.4 to form the
core of the kernel.
c,
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