[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

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> > That may be true but the way the ad read, I really didn't say is WAS
> > UNIX but, "Mac OS X is built on a rock-solid UNIX foundation to make
> > it resistant to attacks from malicious programs." so interpreted that
> > as based on UNIX.  Maybe it's just a matter of symantics.
> 
> Yeah, I'd say symantics.  I might go so far as to call BS on that
> one, as there is no UNIX [TM] source code in the system, as far as I
> know, it's an updated Mach kernel (CMU?) with bits from the BSDs and
> customizations from Apple.  It was submitted to the OpenGroup for
> certification, and was granted a UNIX 3.0 stamp of approval.  So, 'based
> on' seems like the wrong wording for them to be using, IMO, as I would
> tend to interpret that as to mean that they started with something that
> was already UNIX, then modified it to their purposes.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Parson

The "based on" was my interpretation of the ad which I later quoted.

Bob