misterblu
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sitarro said:The Mac uses an operating system designed specifically for MACs.
I suppose it depends on how you define "designed specifically for". OS X is based on a hodge- podge of proprietary Apple software, Free BSD and Mach
"The core of Mac OS X is an open source Unix-like operating system, built around the XNU kernel with standard Unix facilities available from the command line interface. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
"XNU is the name of the kernel that Apple develops for use in the Mac OS X operating system and releases as open source as part of the Darwin operating system. It is a hybrid kernel combining the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from the FreeBSD kernel as well as a C++ API for writing drivers called IOKit. XNU is an acronym for X is Not Unix.[1]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU