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Re:Airyx OS by throw0101a on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:03AM (#28072080)
> MacOS because XNU is based on Mach, and it was forked (Edit: from 4.3BSD) in 1988

As another commenter noted: XNU = Mach + FreeBSD.

What you are referring to is what NeXTSTEP was, Mach + BSD4:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Unix

By the time Apple got to them it was a few years later, and so they decided to updated that part of the kernel, and also brought in FreeBSD's userland.

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