Re: mac is not unix [Re: What was that about hubris?]

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> > Pause to count number of good games on the mac.

s/ on the mac//  :-)

> But as it was explained to me by a very nice guy, an operating system
> is built of three components.  The core, the GUI and the command
> interface.  Of all these, only the last is Unix-based.

Well, I do believe Mac OS X is built along those lines.  "An operating
system" in general may or may not be; indeed, plenty of operating
systems do not have anything at all that could reasonably be called a
GUI, much less structure like what you sketch.

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