Re: mac is not unix [Re: What was that about hubris?]

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:25:35 +0200, Gadi Evron said:
> der Mouse wrote:
> > > > > "An operating system" in general may or may not be [split into
> > > > > core, GUI, and CLI]; indeed, plenty of operating systems do not
> > > > > have anything at all that could reasonably be called a GUI, much
> > > > > less structure like what you sketch.
> > > 1) Either convince me that Cisco's IOS and Juniper's JunOS are in
> > > fact *not* operating systems, or point out to me how they're split
> > > into a core, a CLI, and a GUI.
> >
> > You don't need to go even that far.  Just consider NetBSD (or Linux, or
> > whatever) on hardware without a GUI-capable framebuffer - or, if that's
> > not enough, on hardware which can't be given one (I've got a board from
> > Mesanet on which it would be difficult-to-impossible to add GUI-capable
> > hardware).
>
> We're talking about Mac here, right?

No, the original quote was "an operating system is build of...", not
"OSX is built of".

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