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paulddraperyesterday at 8:58 PM1 replyview on HN

> 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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nxobjectyesterday at 10:15 PM

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".