Subj : OFFLINE READER NEEDED
To   : Martin Prieto
From : Scott Little
Date : Thu Aug 10 2000 04:22 pm

 => No, there is really a UNIX foundation. Devices must actually be
 => mounted, there is a kernel image, perms work the same ways and you have
 => a "slash" to separate directory entrys. ;)

my god man.

a) if macos has 'a UNIX foundation' then why isn't Apple paying royalties to 
The Open Group (who own UNIX)?

b) macos doesn't have a single filesystem. disks can only be mounted on the 
desktop, and are referenced just like in other non-Unix-like OS' such as DOS,
Windows, OS/2, VMS, Tandem (mainframe) - each disk being it's own separate 
filesystem.

c) what OS doesn't have a kernel image?

d) perms? if you mean file permissions, think again.

e) It does NOT uses any kind of slash, it uses a COLON:TO:SEPARATE:FOLDERS

if MacOS were to use the everything-is-a-file concept, which is the basis of 
any real Unix clone, then MAYBE i'd agree it is somewhat Unix-ish. However 
it doesn't, and MacOS is nothing like Unix.

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