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by vardump 2823 days ago
Interesting.

Never did macOS drivers, just bare metal, Windows and Linux so far, macOS is not very big in our niche. Weird that Apple's terminology is so different.

Typing this on a Macbook Pro, and I can see that Activity Monitor does mention "wired" memory.

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I did a little googling and I see the terminology is also used in the Mach microkernel, which macOS's XNU kernel was built upon. It looks like it's not something Apple came up with.