"Apple has a history of lifting technology from other's efforts, witness the mouse and GUI interface that Apple borrowed from Xerox PARC, OSX borrrows heavily from Unix."
Sounds like you're confusing Microsoft with Apple. And, OSX actually IS BSD Unix.
Sounds like you're confusing Microsoft with Apple. And, OSX actually IS BSD Unix.
No confusion at all, it was Apple that visited the PARC lab on that fateful day.
Like millions of others, I could be easily confused by all the permutations of Unix, which I consider a difference without a distinction.