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		riskyfive on April 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General ... doesn't macOS put a BSD translation of some sort in their kernel? Theres a microkernel, a driver api (device kit) and then 'bsd'

riskyfive on April 15, 2020 | [–]

random wikipedia image that somewhat supports what I was thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#/med...

saagarjha on April 15, 2020 | | [–]

The actual API layers are nowhere near that clean ;)

yjftsjthsd-h on April 15, 2020 | [–]

Darwin doesn't use a microkernel, but yeah they straight-up grafted a BSD syscall layer onto a Mach base.

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