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The system’s UNIX kernel was called Darwin, and it was based on Mach, the modern kernel technology developed by Avie Tevanian at Carnegie Mellon
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and the foundation of NeXTSTEP. Darwin was why Mac OS X had protected memory and pre-emptive multi-tasking, which allowed for multiple
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applications to run at the same time without ever bringing the system down. It also provided very advanced networking, unlike the old Mac OS.
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2D graphics were based on PostScript, just like NeXTSTEP, which allowed for
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nice font anti-aliasing and on the-fly PDF rendering. 3D graphics however, unlike NeXTSTEP, were based on the most widespread standard, OpenGL,
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not on Pixar’s RenderMan. And the media core was Apple’s QuickTime, an old Mac technology ported to the new system.
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Object-oriented application development, which was the raison d’être of NeXTSTEP and its true competitive
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