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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....
• 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...
• andrewknutsen commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  Or this: developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/ Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html...
• 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?...
• 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?...