[Elecraft] Now that we know

Bill Coleman aa4lr at arrl.net
Sun Apr 17 20:04:16 EDT 2005


On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Kevin Rock wrote:

> I thought it was all CP/M underneath ;)  Now the latest Mac OS is 
> Linux underneath with Apple's APIs stapled on top.  Is there nothing 
> new under the sun?

The "latest" MacOS (MacOS X has been out of 4 years now....) has Unix 
underneath. Not Linux. It is BSD Unix under the covers.

When someone asked at the Apple WorldWide Developers Conference, "Which 
BSD distribution does MacOS X draw from" about four years ago, Apple 
Engineers answered, "All of them."


Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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