Mac OS X basically unix with a pretty shell. does this mean...

[fury]

that us "lowly" PC users could take Mac OS X and fairly easily port it to the PC?

 

[Neo]

Fury,
It just really means that M$ money has taken over their technology... HAHA

 

[PostCode]

BSD core all the way.

 

[brainsoft]

Mac tries to hide it, saying it's not unix, it's something else (I forget the name). That something else is unix though

 

[JJR512]

Hmm... Going from Windows 2000 to Mac OS X is a step in the wrong direction anyway.

 

[brainsoft]

I thought it was actually planned to run ong x86 as well as Apple hardware, I wonder if there was any truth in that? I know I would give it a shot if it were true!

 

[br0ck]

1.3.7 Darwin Kernel Version 1.3.7: Sat Jun 9 11:12:48 PDT 2001; root:xnu/xnu-124.13.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

 

[fury]

As far as I know, the rumor was false because the only version that has been put out so far is for the PPC

 

[br0ck]

there was a page www.osxonintel.com that discussed a lot about it, but it seems that site has gone down. You're right, it ended up as a rumor.