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> OS X shares a little code with FreeBSD and was partially derived from it around 30 years ago.

The first release of FreeBSD was 30 years ago, OS X a little over 20.



OS X is derived from NeXTSTEP, first released in 1989 and based on 4.3BSD-Tahoe. Meanwhile, this was updated to 4.3BSD-Reno and ported to the x86 as 386BSD, from which NetBSD was forked in early 1993; it was subsequently reorganized to become FreeBSD in late 1993. NeXTSTEP and OS X later imported a few system components from FreeBSD, while replacing others, particularly replacing parts of the kernel with Mach.


Well Rhapsody was released 25 years ago. So you’re both right, now go back playing ;-)




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