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There might not be that much - the 386BSD project concentrated specifically on the 386 implementation, whereas Mac OS X was initially launched for PowerPC.
by dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
There might not be that much - the 386BSD project concentrated specifically on the 386 implementation, whereas Mac OS X was initially launched for PowerPC.
- opless 9y agoThat and the kernel is mach, using only the BSD userland. Remember OSX's direct ancestor was NeXT, which ran on higher end Motorola 68K.
- bonzini 9y agoIt is a hybrid kernel. There are parts of the Darwin kernel (xnu) other than mach that run in ring 0. This is unlike the Hurd, for example.
- lukeh 9y agoRight, but the BSD components got a big makeover post-NeXT, largely thanks to FreeBSD (but also NetBSD and OpenBSD).
- mattl 9y ago> which ran on higher end Motorola 68k And Intel 486, HP PA-RISC and Sun SPARC