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Date:Mon Nov 12 18:34:00 2001 
Subject:Re: Poplog for Mac OS X? ... 
From:Jonathan L Cunningham 
Volume-ID:1011112.01 

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:55:53 +0000 (UTC), the [in/un]famous
steve@watchfield.com wrote:

>Mac OS X is indeed a UNIX in the BSD family.  The core of Mac OS X, i.e.
>excluding the GUI level, is Darwin and open source.  A good introduction
>is provided here
>	http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/faq.html
>
>In particular
>      "note, however, that apart from a few architectural differences (such
>      as our use of the Mach kernel), we try to keep Darwin as compatible
>      as possible with FreeBSD (our BSD reference platform)."
>
>This means that all the usual command-line tools, such as gcc and the
>assembler are standard.
>
>One early question would be whether the PPC+AIX assembler is compatible
>with the Mac OS X.

Not an answer to the point you raised, but here is an extract from
a post on a completely different newsgroup. It's taken out of context,
so I'm not attributing it:

Someone on another newsgroup:
: I think OSX looks awesome and works great, but I find that the "Classic"
: emulation is tedious to load, so I'm still, regretfully, running 9.1
: until I have accumulated more X software.  
: 
: Number one on my must-have-before-switching list is an off-line
: mail/news reader.

To which followups suggested various unix(?) newsreaders. I'm
wondering now whether X is a pun on "10" and "X Windows". (I'd
always assumed the X just meant 10, when referring to Mac OS.)

Jonathan

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Jonathan L Cunningham