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If it is targeting UNIX then it must work on Mac. Echoing your words, UNIX has stringent requirements to be UNIX and macOS fulfilled those requirements. MacOS
by rasengan 8y ago
If it is targeting UNIX then it must work on Mac. Echoing your words, UNIX has stringent requirements to be UNIX and macOS fulfilled those requirements.
MacOS IS UNIX.
As a side note for fun, Linux is not UNIX and that’s intentional. Freedom is nice. ;)
- pmarreck 8y ago> Linux is not UNIX and that’s intentional Isn't that the recursive acronym itself? :)
- rasengan 8y agoExactly!
- sethrin 8y agoLinux is not UNIX™, but it is a Unix in most meaningful senses of that term. My opinion would be that making much of the distinction would be pedantic in a negative sense; there does not seem to be a practical reason for this.