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That and the kernel is mach, using only the BSD userland. Remember OSX's direct ancestor was NeXT, which ran on higher end Motorola 68K.
by opless 9y ago
That 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