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0 pointsteddyh1y ago0 comments

Bell Labs did the same with Unix, but Unix was still not open source. This is why we run GNU/Linux today, not Unix™.

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pjmlp1y ago

There is still enough Unix™ around, including from a well know fruit company.

teddyhOP1y ago

No, macOS is FreeBSD, not the Unix from Bell Labs.

pjmlp1y ago

macOS is many things, a bit of NeXTSTEP, a pinch of Mach, q.b. BSD, and a UNIX™ certification from OpenGroup.

teddyhOP1y ago

A UNIX™ certification is not the same as being actual code from Unix™.

NeXTSTEP was 4.3BSD plus Mach, using Display Postscript as its windowing system and TIFF as its image format, supporting transparency for icons. macOS is FreeBSD plus Mach, using Display PDF as its windowing format and PNG as its image format, supporting transparency for icons. Basically NeXTSTEP but every component upgraded to its then-modern equivalent. (Except Objective C, they kept that.)

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pjmlp1y ago

There is still enough Unix™ around, including from a well know fruit company.

teddyhOP1y ago

No, macOS is FreeBSD, not the Unix from Bell Labs.

pjmlp1y ago

macOS is many things, a bit of NeXTSTEP, a pinch of Mach, q.b. BSD, and a UNIX™ certification from OpenGroup.

teddyhOP1y ago

A UNIX™ certification is not the same as being actual code from Unix™.

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