Darwin Version

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Oct 5 15:42:01 PDT 2015


On Sat, 3 Oct 2015, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> > Remember: under the bonnet (ObUSA: hood) the Mac runs FreeBSD.
> 
> OS X is underpinned by Darwin, not FreeBSD. Darwin is based on NeXTSTEP, 
> BSD, XNU and other projects, and of course a great deal of independent 
> work by Apple.

You're saying that Darwin was written from scratch and not evolved from a 
modified FreeBSD 4.1, or am I thinking of an earlier MacOS?

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