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bigyabailast Saturday at 12:47 AM1 replyview on HN

macOS is XNU-based. There is BSD code that runs in the microkernel level and BSD tools in the userland, but the kernel does not resemble BSD's architecture or adopt BSD's license.

This is an issue for some industry-standard software like CUDA, which does provide BSD drivers with ARM support that just never get adopted by Apple: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/


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7elast Saturday at 2:25 AM

If there were TCO advantages with this setup, CUDA would not be a blocker.