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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:55:58 -0800
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On 2024-12-10 14:24, Joel wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
>>>
>>> Mach's derivatives are the basis of the operating system kernel in GNU
>>> Hurd and of Apple's XNU kernel used in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and
>>> watchOS.
>> And XNU therefore isn't Mach and Mach is NOT the kernel that Apple uses.
> 
> 
> Uh huh.
> 
> 
>> So the answer is to the question, "Does Apple have its own kernel?"...
>>
>> ...is:
>>
>> Yes. Apple uses a kernel called XNU that they developed from Mach and
>> other sources with huge amounts of their own work as well.
>>
>> Now, here's a question for you:
>>
>> Why is it even important which kernel Apple uses?
> 
> 
> They didn't build it from scratch, like Winblows NT did.  Why did
> Gates hire Cutler?  Why did Apple wish they could've?
> 

Why SHOULD they build it from scratch.

And Microsoft hired Cutler, because THEY didn't want to start from 
scratch...

....because Cutler had been one of the technical product leads on VMS...

....which Windows NT internally very much resembles.

<https://everything2.com/title/The+similarities+between+VMS+and+Windows+NT>