15 Dec
2003
15 Dec
'03
10:32 a.m.
On 2003-12-15 09:51:39 +0000 Adrian Clark alien@essex.ac.uk wrote:
MacOS X is based around a Mach kernel with outer layers from 4.4bsd. So it's as much of a Unix box as Linux, and there's no hackery involved at all.
I thought part of the "hackery" often shouted about was making the Mach microkernel into something more like a monolithic kernel.
display PostScript engine will probably be experiencing a warm glow at this point, as it was a better windowing system than X in almost every respect.
Again, I thought part of the reason it lost out was that X had far superior networking support, although that hasn't really been as important as people thought it would be.
Is there any reason why Display PDF is better than Display PostScript?
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