Mac OS X overview

Found a great document at kernelthread.com dispelling myths & detailing the history and intricacies of the Mac OSX operating system.
I prefer not to get in to the argument about which is 'better', for me, its like guitars - if you want to sound like Eric Clapton, use a Fender Strat, like Jimi Page - use a Les Paul.
Use the right tool for the Job.
That said however, I dont have a Mac around the house, so keeping up with whats going on in there is a chore.

This document does not aim to regurgitate Marketing KoolAid, not that there's anything wrong with it™, but is intended primarily as an introduction to Mac OS X for those members of the technical community who are not familiar with it. You can think of it as a somewhat low-level taste of Apple's operating system.

(Steve Jobs founded NeXT based on BSD and brought it back to Apple - answered my question!)

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