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Comment by paulddraper

18 hours ago

> macOS isn’t, and never has been, Unix.

MacOS is the most UNIXy of the UNIXes

1. Comparatively heavyweight

2. Proprietary

3. UNIX APIs

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nxobject  17 hours ago

To beef up the historical comparisons, "creates their own workstations on RISC-derived processors" is also (historically) a sign of a (commerical) UNIX, too. It isn't to jarring to mentally replace "macOS Tahoe" with "NeXTSTEP 26".

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