While the discussion in that thread may or may not apply to OS X, be *very* care...

		jwatzman on Feb 24, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would... While the discussion in that thread may or may not apply to OS X, be very careful when saying "X is true about Mach therefore X is probably true about Darwin". A friend of mine put it very well: OS X was Mach once in the same way that orcs were elves once.