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osOpinion: The Operating System is Dead. Long Live the Operating System

Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
for this link.

“Apple’s Macintosh OS X operating system, when combined with
it’s Open Source initiative, presents us with the following
interesting conundrum:”

“How can an operating system contain another complete operating
system? Mac OS X has as its foundation an Open Source project that
Apple is calling Darwin. Basically, Darwin is BSD Unix on a Mach
2.5 kernel with some Apple modifications and additions. Darwin is a
complete, stand-alone operating system.”


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