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Get To Know Mach, the Kernel of Mac OS X

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-to-know-all-about-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. So what is Mac OS X's kernel? The Mach microkernel. The debate around Monolithic (Linux) and Micro (Mach) kernels continues, and there is a great chapter online about the Mach system from the very good book 'Operating System Concepts'. Which design is better? I report, you decide." Warning: link is to a PDF.

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  1. This is a tough fight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The apple metrosexuals vs the greasy bearded GNU/linux hippies! Who will win!

  2. commence the horse beating by hector_uk · · Score: 5, Funny

    commence the dead horse beating. i start : mach owns.

    1. Re:commence the horse beating by skraps · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bottom line, Mach is the most advanced manual shaving system in the world. The Mach3 Turbo is the world's first triple-blade razor, with three blades positioned independently to shave you progressively closer in a single stroke.

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    2. Re:commence the horse beating by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Funny
      I believe you're thinking of the M3 Power. If you're getting electric pulses off the M3 Turbo, you're standing in a puddle in your bathroom and you have a bad ground to your electrical outlet.

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    3. Re:commence the horse beating by paladin_tom · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, take my pants off and you have the world's finest lady-pleasuring device.


      Trust me, it works.

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    4. Re:commence the horse beating by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Funny
      Just because they are screaming doesn't mean it is from extacy. ;)

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  3. Why warn us? Super Slashdot Effect by licamell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Warning: link is to a PDF"

    Um, if you want to warn anyone maybe you should warn the sys admin of the server that hosts the PDF file that you just put a link to on the main page of slashdot. I think they'll care a little more about the super slashdot effect (I'm coining that term for when a non-html file is linked to from slashdot - be it pdf, mpg, avi, etc.) than we will about taking the extra time to load.

  4. Here's an idea for some news - by Kipsaysso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's ask what OS is better. The Apple and Linux people will go at each others throats and will in the end agree that they hate Window$.

    Smucks.

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  5. Great OS Book - but what's Steve up to now? by kriegsman · · Score: 4, Funny
    Operating System Concepts is a great book for learning about what an OS is and the design choices that go into building one. We used that book way back in my college days, and it's one of the few textbooks I actually kept. Here's an excerpt from the (linked PDF) chapter on Mach:
    Mach 2.5 is also the basis for the operating system on the NeXT workstation, the brainchild of Steve Jobs, of Apple Computer fame.

    So... does anyone here know what Steve Jobs and Mach have been up to since their halcyon days at NeXT?
  6. This article is troll. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Period.

  7. Let's secretly watch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    as we switch Steve Job's kernel beans with new Roaster's Light Linux Beans.

    Now, let's see if he notices!

  8. an old joke... by rplacd · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Mach was the greatest intellectual fraud in the last ten years."
    "What about X?"
    "I said `intellectual'."
    ;login, 9/1990