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bhima is offline bhima
2006-04-29 , 14:50
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#18
Originally Posted by odysseus
don't buy it personally, especially as the Mac version is essentially a UNIX version, but there you go, that's closed source for ya.
The stuff underneath OS X is UNIX, and there are UNIX APIs, but there are also MacOS X APIs which are really quite, quite different from Linux and traditional UNIX APIs. Graphics, sound, timing and multimedia are where the APIs will be quite different.

The UNIX underpinnings of OS X make it easier for traditional UNIX stuff to run on OS X, but they really don't mean that OS X apps can easily be ported to other UNIX flavours.