-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/07 19:36, Gregory Stark wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: [snip] > > That was true of the traditional BSD 4.3 and 4.4 design. However when people > refer to "BSD" these days they're referring to one of the major derivatives > which have all undergone extensive further development. FreeBSD has crowed a > lot about their finer-grained kernel locks too for example. Other variants of > BSD tend to focus on other areas (like portability for example) so they may > not be as far ahead but they've still undoubtedly made significant progress > compared to 1993. NetBSD and OpenBSD are still pretty not-good at scaling up. But they're darned good at running on 68K Macs (NBSD) and semi-embedded stuff like low-end firewalling routers (OBSD). >> Not much of a kernel guy here but my understanding is that MacOSX is >> basically NeXT version 10, which means... Mach... which is entirely >> different than say FreeBSD at the kernel level. > > I think (but I'm not sure) that the kernel in OSX comes from BSD. What they > took from NeXT was the GUI design and object oriented application framework > stuff. Basically all the stuff that Unix programmers still haven't quite > figured out what it's good for. Even AfterStep is written is plain C... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHTMqjS9HxQb37XmcRAmS+AKCyzxZ9b1jmcye8gEwlun7VrszhfgCfVC6B LEaSaGlorSQ5lX5eIIgx7dM= =NvJi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/