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Old 04-13-2004, 12:56 AM  
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Originally posted by delgato


You actually do. Do a ps -aux in a shell sometime. OS X is a microkernel... which means that it has a minimal kernel (the memory management and scheduling part) and the drivers and everything are loaded as processes. That way... if your sound card driver fucks up... it takes down a process that can be respawned instead of taking down the whole kernel space.

That and a lot of hippy pot smoking and shrooming in Cali are the reason your apple "just works."
I meant I don't have to deal with it. Yes it's there behind the pretty interface but as a user you don't really have to deal with it at all. Unless you feel like opening up a terminal and fucking around.
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