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

[Paul M Moriarty <pmm () igtc com>]

On Oct 2, 2009, at 7:25 PM, der Mouse wrote:

> > > > > > "An operating system" in general may or may not be [split into
> > > > > > core, GUI, and CLI]; [...]
> > > You don't need to go even that far.  Just consider NetBSD (or Linux,
> > > or whatever) on hardware without a GUI-capable framebuffer - [...]
> > We're talking about Mac here, right?
>
> I, at least, wasn't.
>
> The original history was
>
> [Paul M. Moriarty]
> > > > [...] a Mac is a UNIX box with a great GUI that [...]

You left off the part where I said:

"Yeah, yeah, nitpick about Mach, blah, blah, blah..."

It seems that most of the followup postings have been nitpicking about  
the blah, blah, blah.  For what I do with it, the mac is UNIX-like  
enough for me.


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