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Comment by otterley

Not really. The roots of OS X/MacOS are in NeXTSTEP. It uses a Mach microkernel that originated at CMU, as opposed to the FreeBSD kernel (or anything like it, really).

That said, a bunch of FreeBSD userland code and utilities were ported over to make the OS POSIX-ish.

It's probably easiest to think of a Mac as an amalgam of many different influences and operating behaviors, as opposed to a direct descendant of any one particular lineage.

parent otterley 6 years ago

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