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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:21:03 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Jeremiah Gowdy <jeremiah@sherline.com>
Cc:        advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Microsoft Advocacy?
Message-ID:  <20011221082103.A2821@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <000a01c18977$9007ac20$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey>; from jeremiah@sherline.com on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:58:08AM -0800
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:58:08AM -0800, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:

[...]
> Apple's OS X is not what I would call a "unix".  Certainly, the Mach based
> underlying kernel is unix-like, and the FreeBSD tools are unix-like.  But
> the desktop is MacOS version 10.  It may be the closest thing to Unix as a
> desktop, but I think they have more desktop and less Unix.

Apple's OS X has as much right to be called UNIX as FreeBSD, Irix,
AIX, and any other variant out there. You're confusing the glitzy
front-end from the heart beneath beast.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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