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Well, most of the world uses Windows (not a UNIX), macOS/iOS (owes more to NextSTEP than UNIX) and Android (owes more to BeOS than UNIX). The latter two use a U
by origin_path 4y ago
Well, most of the world uses Windows (not a UNIX), macOS/iOS (owes more to NextSTEP than UNIX) and Android (owes more to BeOS than UNIX). The latter two use a UNIX kernel to get basics like scheduling and a filesystem but the userland APIs look nothing like UNIX or Linux, and both have a strong micro-kernelish vibe to them with Mach and the Binder respectively.