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The foundation of MacOS is a fully-compliant Unix: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.ht
by thesuperbigfrog 2y ago
The foundation of MacOS is a fully-compliant Unix:
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm
The GUI is built on top of the Unix foundation and does not stand alone or work without it.
The 'FoxTrot' comic made a big deal about this not long after Mac OS X was released:
https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25 https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25
- steve1977 2y agoThe foundation of macOS contains elements of UNIX (or rather BSD) and the OS is UNIX certified, I‘m fully aware of that. But these are two different things. For one thing, UNIX != command line. In the same vein, Windows NT is not based on DOS anymore, even if it has a command line which resembles (parts of) DOS.