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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mach/BSD 🤓

The actual kernel of XNU (ie. what's under the hood in macOS, originally by NeXT) is Mach which is a microkernel, and a chunk of FreeBSD is used to provide userland(ish) stuff like POSIX APIs, a UNIX process model on top of Mach, protocol stacks 'n shit.