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by parkcedar
620 days ago
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Yes, but since it was initially created I believe a lot of it has been rewritten. Eg, the filesystem. I suspect the memory system is different these days too, since macOS handles compressed memory quite differently (though not sure how that gets implemented under the hood). FreeBSD is like a great grandparent, related but still very different. |
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In fact, it's been partially done for FreeBSD, https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
We could in principle do something similar for Darwin (if we had enough of the historical code), which is the core of MacOS, which is based on NeXT, which was based on BSD with a new kernel. That makes MacOS every bit as much a member of the Unix/BSD family as FreeBSD is.