[funsec] mac is not unix [Re: What was that about hubris?]
Gadi Evron
ge at linuxbox.org
Thu Oct 1 21:07:17 CDT 2009
der Mouse wrote:
>>> Pause to count number of good games on the mac.
>
> s/ on the mac// :-)
>
>> But as it was explained to me by a very nice guy, an operating system
>> is built of three components. The core, the GUI and the command
>> interface. Of all these, only the last is Unix-based.
>
> Well, I do believe Mac OS X is built along those lines. "An operating
> system" in general may or may not be; indeed, plenty of operating
> systems do not have anything at all that could reasonably be called a
> GUI, much less structure like what you sketch.
Don't be nit-pickerish.
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