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   Message 694 of 1,530   
   Joacim Melin to Mike Powell   
   Re: Battle of Britian: Th   
   28 Sep 19 21:01:44   
   
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   PID: NiKom v2.5.0   
   >>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   
    MP> ad   
   >>someplace that MacOS is sorta based on linux/unix too?   
      
    MP> The underpinnings are based on BSD.  For a while anyway, it was   
    MP> available   
    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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