Originally Posted By: dkmarsh

I was referring to Mac OS X being a GUI running on top of a UNIX-based operating system, not unlike Windows being a GUI running on top of DOS.

Yes, but there is no comparison between the Unix kernel underlying OS X and the MS-DOS kernel underlying Windows. MS-DOS wasn't even original, it was a rip-off of the earlier CpM (Control Program Microprocessor).


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