Basically, what happened was that Apple bought Next and then Next took over Apple. That is a very simplistic view of it, but it covers the basics. The Next executives moved in and took over several positions a Apple. OS: Next (os and computer) => Nextstep (just the OS) => Openstep (the OS repackaged) => Mac OS X (the OS merged with the Mac operating system.) Loren Petre Scheie wrote: >IIRC, the Next OS, which Steve Jobs started when he left Apple, was based >on Mach. And then around the time Jobs came back to Apple, Apple bought >Next, which by that time had dumped its hardware and was working only on >software. Don't know what happened to the OS after that. > >Petre Scheie > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >On 11/7/01, 9:40:53 AM, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net> wrote >regarding Re: [TCLUG] Freebsd lovin': > > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <chrome at real-time.com> >>To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >>Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 7:59 AM >>Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Freebsd lovin' >> > > >>>> I thought that OS X was mach kernel based, making it a lightweight >>>>derivative of a BSD kernel, is that right? >>>> >>>not that I know of... I don't think I've heard anything like that. >>> > >>It is derived from the FreeBSD 3.x kernel in particular. I beleive they >>have incorporated many changes from 4.x as well. They (Apple) even hired >>Jordon Hubbard (a FreeBSD core member and founder) of the FreeBSD project >> >to > >>join the OSX development team. >> > >>Tom Veldhouse >>veldy at veldy.net >> > > >>_______________________________________________ >>Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> >Minnesota > >>http://www.mn-linux.org >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >