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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by throwaway4good on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:15PM (#25561503)
"Running OS-X in datacenters was verboten"

Why?

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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by toast0 on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:00PM (#25562055)
I'm not an Apple insider, but I can imagine many reasons.

For one thing, the tcp stack is ancient, and easy to syn flood. (It was forked from FreeBSD in 2001ish, before FreeBSD added syncookies and syncache). Synflooding os x makes the whole network stack unresponsive, including other interfaces like localhost.

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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by cma on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:25PM (#25561621)
Maybe they didn't want to run into a tech debt thing of "we can't push this update to consumers even though it would cause no issues for them, because it would break X and Y on our backend servers and the two would have to diverge for some time until we come up with a fix."
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