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by saagarjha 2104 days ago
> no X11

XQuartz if you want it

> completely non-POSIX low-level API

macOS has a POSIX layer.

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> XQuartz if you want it

There are X server implementations for Windows, Android, AmigaOS, Windows CE!!, etc... I don't think this is relevant.

> macOS has a POSIX layer. So do many systems, again including Windows in varying forms through the years. I think the salient issue is that BSD UNIX and "tradition" are conflicting. The point of the original CMU Mach project was to replace the BSD monolith kernel.