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Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Some great comments coming in on HN: "I would have cast Jobs/NeXT as Constantine, bringing unix to the desktops of the common user."...
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Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
VMs read the bibles as mere literature....

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andrewknutsen commented on
Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Why do people think Mac OSX is Unix? I don't even know why Apple insists on pushing that flavor of Kool-Aid. Let the truth be known from the scrolls of the intitiates: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html. You'd think Jobs would be proud of keeping his creation (NextStep) alive... So perhaps OS-X is the Islam of the OS world, since its a new religion which adopts the facade of the old....
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andrewknutsen commented on
Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Hmmm, looks like URL's are prevented. Lets try this: developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html...
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andrewknutsen commented on
Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Or this: developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/ Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html...
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paws4thot commented on
Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
That's how OSX was originally described; as being a Mac-style X environment layer over a Unix kernel. You're allowed 0 to 2 valid hyperlinks before your message will be automatically submitted to the moderation stack. Does that explain your "missing" submission?...
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phongn commented on
Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Why do people think Mac OSX is Unix? I don't even know why Apple insists on pushing that flavor of Kool-Aid. Because it is. It conforms to the UNIX 03 specification. It's a bit unusual (BSD userland running on top of a Mach microkernel) but since it conforms to specification what does it matter if it has different sort of kernel?...

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