darwin mc?

[andu]

--On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 16:08:46 -0800 Sadhunathan Nadesan 
<sadhu at castandcrew.com> wrote:

>|
>| It's the metacard engine for Darwin.  You can slap it into your
>| CGI-EXECUTABLES folder and then write MetaTalk scripts to do cool CGI
>| stuff.
>|
>
>
> Ok, I get it.  Call me ignorant, but I had no idea what Darwin was.
> Your response gave me enough of a clue to do a search on the net and
> uncover the fact that it's probably a Mac operating system code name
> or component or something.   I found this on an Apple site which makes
> it sound like Darwin is a code name for the Unix kernel.

Darwin is a Unix flavor in its own right based on FreeBSD and Next. OS X 
sits on top of it providing extra functionality just like XFree86 but 
certainly more complex. There is a port to i386 but device support is 
extremely limited at this point.

>
>      Mac OS X also marks the debut of true preemptive
>      multitasking. Darwin, Mac OS X's underlying code, constantly
>      analyzes your computer needs.  It works on processing tasks on the
>      background. But when you receive an e-mail or have an urgent need,
>      Darwin will allocate processing power to your immediate tasks.
>
> As you can probably tell, I'm not too familiar with Mac's.  Anyway,
> thank you!
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Regards, Andu Novac