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Actually stumbled across this the other day- had no idea the Mach kernel was being used on Apple hardware before the Intel transition. MachTen was a paid-for Ma

Actually stumbled across this the other day- had no idea the Mach kernel was being used on Apple hardware before the Intel transition. MachTen was a paid-for Mach kernel based around BSD4.4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MachTen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MachTen

pram 7y ago
Technically they were anyway, since XNU/OSX were on PowerPC ;P
kijiki 7y ago
MkLinux ran Linux as the sole server process on Mach on Macs. It was noticeably slower than the direct PowerPC port. It was done by Apple and OSF, and for a while was the only way to run Linux on NuBus Macs.