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"Running OS-X in datacenters was verboten" Why?
by throwaway4good 6y ago
"Running OS-X in datacenters was verboten"
Why?
- cma 6y agoMaybe they didn't want to run into a tech debt thing of "we can't push this update to consumers even though it would cause no issues for them, because it would break X and Y on our backend servers and the two would have to diverge for some time until we come up with a fix."
- toast0 6y agoI'm not an Apple insider, but I can imagine many reasons. For one thing, the tcp stack is ancient, and easy to syn flood. (It was forked from FreeBSD in 2001ish, before FreeBSD added syncookies and syncache). Synflooding os x makes the whole network stack unresponsive, including other interfaces like localhost.