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> Then a little bit later Jordan Hubbard announces FreeBSD would be the UNIX layer of OS X.

But it's not. It's NeXTStep. They took a little bit of userland but that's about it. A lot of it is not even freebsd-specific like zsh and bash (the ancient version apple ships)

I wonder if more was planned at first. Similar to when Jonathan Schwartz proudly announced ZFS being part of macOS but it only ever made it to a beta and was removed again.



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