[rescue] osx kernel [was: Sunburst]

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: <nate at portents.com>
" 
" On Fri, 21 May 2010 12:02:11 -0400 (EDT), adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich
" Maker) wrote:
" > " From: gsm at mendelson.com
" > " 
" > " []
" > " 
" > " In some ways I'm surprised by MacOS, the Leopard scheduler degrades
" > nicely
" > " under load, even though it was designed for a single user workstation.
" > 
" > did apple actually write it themselves, or did they inherit it with
" > the mach microkernel?  that would have roots in big iron.
" 
" []
" However what Apple evolved from the Mach kernel isn't
" really the quite the Mach kernel anymore, it's really the XNU kernel,
" because it's changed significantly in some ways.

ps. has anyone else noticed http://opensource.apple.com/ and
http://www.apple.com/opensource/ ?
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