[Zachary Copley <snatcher@bearfountain.com>] Re: [!CrackMonkey!] [mailman-owner@zork.net: CrackMonkey unsubscribe notification]

[Sean Neakums]

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>>>>>> "SN" == Sean Neakums <sneakums at zork.net> writes:
>
>     SN> Of course I was trolling.  But OS X is a bunch of NeXT stuff
>     SN> that runs on top of a BSD-compatible super-server running on
>     SN> a Mach microkernel.  No number of rants can change that.
>     SN> That fact that Mach is a big fat first-generation
>     SN> microkernel is unfortunate, but you're kind of stuck with
>     SN> it, at least for now.
>
> You dumb ass.  You don't know what the F you're talking about.
> Darwin is a fucking monolithic kernel.  So was NeXTSTEP's kernel.

Never let mere facts get in the way of a good troll, that's my motto.

Anyway, as I recall, it was the releases of NeXTstep based on Mach 2.5
(possibly earlier; what version did NeXT start with?) that had the
separate BSD super-server.

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